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How has WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
774
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144005642
WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY
15300 STONEYBROOK WEST PKWY, WINTER GARDEN, FL 34787 · (407) 656-7773 · Orange County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL774 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Florida public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
114 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 69 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 118 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 131 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 129 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 138 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 41% smaller than its 5th grade class (138).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). 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
83.6%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.1pp since 2023
Math
89.6%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.6% | 89.6% |
| 2023-24 | 83.8% | 89.8% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
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
86.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 →
Schools most like WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY
WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY's state test result (86.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY this school | 774 | 14.7% | 86.9% |
| MORIKAMI PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELRAY BEACH | 806 | 12.9% | 93.6% |
| PANTHER RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE WORTH | 794 | 17.4% | 83.5% |
| SUMMERLAKE ELEMENTARY WINTER GARDEN | 726 | 8.4% | 81.9% |
| PARK TRAILS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARKLAND | 981 | 10.2% | 79.3% |
| DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT FLAGLER CENTER JACKSONVILLE | 867 | 17.3% | 63.5% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.9% | #39 of 2,136 | #3 of 157 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 89.6% | #57 of 2,149 ▼ 14 | #5 of 159 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.6% | #76 of 2,149 ▼ 26 | #7 of 159 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 774 | #527 of 2,267 | #29 of 168 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #1,256 of 2,077 | #120 of 159 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.4% | #609 of 2,108 | #49 of 159 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.7% | #2,069 of 2,188 | #148 of 162 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.4% | #438 of 1,374 | #42 of 112 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
774
-261 (-25%) vs 2020
-45% since 2010-11, when it was 1,396
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 774 | 47 | 16.5:1 | 15% (114) |
| 2023-24 | 803 | 48 | 16.7:1 | 17% (136) |
| 2022-23 | 825 | 51 | 16.2:1 | 19% (158) |
| 2020-21 | 1,035 | 72 | 14.4:1 | 21% (218) |
| 2017-18 | 985 | 67 | 14.7:1 | 21% (205) |
| 2015-16 | 862 | 55 | 15.7:1 | 24% (211) |
| 2010-11 | 1,396 | 84 | 16.6:1 | 43% (596) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY.
About WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY
WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY runs as a mid-sized elementary school in WINTER GARDEN, Florida. It had 774 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Florida have about 604 students on average; enrollment here is 28% higher.
WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY belongs to ORANGE, a district of 272 schools and 207,778 students.
About 51% of the student body at WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY is White. Smaller groups are 29% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, and 6% multiracial. County-wide, 42% of Orange County residents are White. A diversity index of 64% means there is a 64% chance two randomly chosen students at WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY are from different groups.
The school lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.5:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 15% of the student body. For comparison, public schools in Orange County average 39%.
WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 96% of Florida public elementary schools.
WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 86.9% is 13.1 points above the 73.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Orange County, median household income comes to about $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The county's public schools total 286, with about 216,813 students.
SUNRIDGE MIDDLE is the nearest public school to WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY, about 1.7 miles away. WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 72.2% proficiency; WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY posts 86.9%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY enrolled 1,035 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 774. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 14.4:1 in 2020-21 to 16.5:1 in 2024-25.
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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 WINTER GARDEN
- WEST ORANGE HIGHHigh · 2,752 students
- HORIZON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,685 students
- BRIDGEWATER MIDDLEMiddle · 1,178 students
- SUNRIDGE MIDDLEMiddle · 1,108 students
- WATER SPRING MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,064 students
- WATER SPRING ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,013 students
Nearby schools
- SUNRIDGE MIDDLE1.7 mi · 1,108
- SUNRIDGE ELEMENTARY1.8 mi · 629
- KEENES CROSSING ELEMENTARY1.9 mi · 954
- BRIDGEWATER MIDDLE2.3 mi · 1,178
- UCP WEST ORANGE CHARTER2.8 mi · 312
- WINDERMERE HIGH2.8 mi · 3,217
Frequently asked questions
About WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY?
WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 774 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY serve?
WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY?
Approximately 16.5:1 students per teacher at WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY.
What is the student diversity at WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY are roughly 51% White, 29% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY public or private?
WHISPERING OAK 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.