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What's the biggest difference between WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY and what you expected?
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Enrollment
494
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144004004
WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY
905 DORSCHER RD, ORLANDO, FL 32818 · (407) 532-3875 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL494 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
373 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from ORANGE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
37.9%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.7pp since 2023
Math
43.7%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
494
-90 (-15%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 15.4:1
% White
2%
was 1%
% Hispanic
6%
was 10%
% Black
92%
was 87%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,471,937
Census ACS
Median income
$79,719
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
286
216,813 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ORANGE
- APOPKA HIGHHigh · 3,446 students
- TIMBER CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,383 students
- WINTER PARK HIGHHigh · 3,277 students
- COLONIAL HIGHHigh · 3,239 students
- WINDERMERE HIGHHigh · 3,217 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,127 students
Other schools in ORLANDO
- FLORIDA VIRTUAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,331 students
- TIMBER CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,383 students
- COLONIAL HIGHHigh · 3,239 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,127 students
- LAKE NONA HIGHHigh · 2,974 students
- DR. PHILLIPS HIGHHigh · 2,964 students
Nearby schools
- SILVER PINES ACADEMY K-12 LEARNING CENTER0.7 mi · 69
- ROBINSWOOD MIDDLE0.8 mi · 985
- MAGNOLIA SCHOOL0.8 mi · 115
- HIAWASSEE ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 619
- WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY1.1 mi · 430
- OAK HILL ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 503
Frequently asked questions
About WEST OAKS ELEMENTARYHow many students attend WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY?
WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 494 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY serve?
WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 18.3:1 students per teacher at WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY.
What is the racial breakdown of students at WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY?
At WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 2% White, 6% Hispanic, 92% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY public or private?
WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ORANGE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.