WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY

WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY, an intimate primary school in ORLANDO, Florida, one of the schools within ORANGE, educates 494 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

ORANGE comprises 272 schools with combined enrollment of 207,778 students; WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY is among them.

Demographically, WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%); the rest looks like 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that median household income runs about $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).

The closest other public school is SILVER PINES ACADEMY K-12 LEARNING CENTER, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 584 (now 494). Over the same period, the Black share rose from 87% to 92%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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