WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY

Set in ORLANDO, Florida, WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY is a tight-knit K-5 school, run under ORANGE. It educates 430 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 29% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

ORANGE runs 272 schools in total, collectively educating 207,778 students. WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY logs that the largest single group is Black, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 17% Hispanic, 4% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 67% of students at WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.8%; this one delivers 44.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Orange County) records that median household earnings sit near $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

WEST OAKS ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 50.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 492 (now 430). Over the same period, the Black share increased from 63% to 75%. Class-load math has rose: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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