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Enrollment
1,136
Elementary
DISTRICT 591 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144002780
WINDY RIDGE K-8
3900 BEECH TREE DR, ORLANDO, FL 32835 · (407) 296-5100 · Orange County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,136 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% 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.
- B-Beats 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
15.3:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
268 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 | 6 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 89 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 158 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 155 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 143 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 117 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 139 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 113 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 21% smaller than its 8th grade class (113).
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
WINDY RIDGE K-8→OLYMPIA HIGH
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
67.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
77.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.2% | 77.5% |
| 2023-24 | 63.1% | 75.5% |
% 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
71.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 WINDY RIDGE K-8
WINDY RIDGE K-8's state test result (71.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WINDY RIDGE K-8 this school | 1,136 | 23.6% | 71.7% |
| SUN BLAZE ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 1,150 | 20.1% | 65.7% |
| EAGLE POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WESTON | 1,139 | 21.1% | 85.8% |
| MOSS PARK ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 842 | 18.5% | 73.1% |
| WATER SPRING ELEMENTARY WINTER GARDEN | 1,013 | 15.6% | 62.4% |
| LOST LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLERMONT | 997 | 27.7% | 64.3% |
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 WINDY RIDGE K-8 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.7% | #391 of 2,136 | #36 of 157 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.5% | #365 of 2,149 ▲ 5 | #30 of 159 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.2% | #545 of 2,149 ▲ 61 | #46 of 159 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,136 | #117 of 2,267 | #6 of 168 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #852 of 2,077 | #70 of 159 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.3% | #617 of 2,108 | #51 of 159 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.6% | #1,938 of 2,188 | #133 of 162 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.8% | #1,006 of 1,374 | #95 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
1,136
-17 (-1%) vs 2020
+146% since 1990-91, when it was 462
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 1,136 | 74 | 15.3:1 | 24% (268) |
| 2023-24 | 1,172 | 74 | 15.8:1 | 27% (317) |
| 2022-23 | 1,173 | 71 | 16.5:1 | 41% (483) |
| 2020-21 | 1,153 | 76 | 15.2:1 | 48% (549) |
| 2017-18 | 1,245 | 89 | 14.0:1 | 47% (586) |
| 2015-16 | 1,128 | 87 | 13.0:1 | 54% (605) |
| 2010-11 | 1,126 | 85 | 13.3:1 | 40% (448) |
| 2000-01 | 1,021 | 64 | 15.9:1 | 31% (321) |
| 1990-91 | 462 | 29 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WINDY RIDGE K-8.
About WINDY RIDGE K-8
WINDY RIDGE K-8 is a large elementary school based in ORLANDO, Florida. The school serves pre-K through 8. Enrollment is 1,136 students. That is 88% above the average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
Across its 272 schools, ORANGE enrolls 207,778 students. WINDY RIDGE K-8 is one of those schools.
At WINDY RIDGE K-8, 52% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 26% White, 10% Black, 9% Asian, and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Orange County is roughly 34% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, WINDY RIDGE K-8 scores 64%.
WINDY RIDGE K-8 has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1. The school's 15.3:1 compares with an average of 17.5:1 for elementary schools in Florida. The school has 24% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 39% average among public schools in Orange County.
WINDY RIDGE K-8 holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 70% of Florida public elementary schools.
A school with WINDY RIDGE K-8's lunch-eligibility share in Florida is predicted to score 69.3%. WINDY RIDGE K-8 scores 71.7%, 2.3 points above that line.
In the surrounding county, Orange County, median household income comes to about $79,719, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Orange County has 286 public schools with about 216,813 students, including WINDY RIDGE K-8.
The closest school to WINDY RIDGE K-8 is OLYMPIA HIGH, located about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 71.7% is above the 53.0% average for nearby schools.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 1,153 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 1,136.
On allk12, people connected to WINDY RIDGE K-8 can post about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
- OLYMPIA HIGH0.6 mi · 2,901
- CHAIN OF LAKES MIDDLE0.9 mi · 955
- WESTPOINTE ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 683
- PALM LAKE ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 574
- METROWEST ELEMENTARY1.4 mi · 549
- GOTHA MIDDLE2.0 mi · 988
Frequently asked questions
About WINDY RIDGE K-8How many students attend WINDY RIDGE K-8?
WINDY RIDGE K-8 enrolls approximately 1,136 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does WINDY RIDGE K-8 serve?
WINDY RIDGE K-8 serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at WINDY RIDGE K-8?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at WINDY RIDGE K-8.
How diverse is WINDY RIDGE K-8?
WINDY RIDGE K-8 reports a student body of 26% White, 52% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is WINDY RIDGE K-8 public or private?
WINDY RIDGE K-8 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.