WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH

WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH operates as a high-enrollment four-year high school in ORLANDO, Florida, part of ORANGE. Current enrollment sits at 2,650 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH sits 156% larger than that benchmark.

WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH is one of 272 schools operated by ORANGE, a district that serves 207,778 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH shows that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 39% White, 10% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 34% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 120 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 30% of students at WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Orange County (around 39%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.3%, the actual is 55.1%, a residual of -11.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Orange County put median household earnings sit near $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH is one.

Nearest neighbor: BLANKNER K-8, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 61.3%.

WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM R BOONE HIGH has fell 5%, going from 2,801 students in 2018 to 2,650 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 47% to 39%. Class-load math has grew: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

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