WOLF LAKE MIDDLE

Located at 1725 W PONKAN RD, in APOPKA, Florida, WOLF LAKE MIDDLE is a reasonably sized middle school that enrolls 1,146 students (grades 6 through 8), part of ORANGE. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 44% larger than typical.

ORANGE comprises 272 schools with combined enrollment of 207,778 students; WOLF LAKE MIDDLE is among them.

Looking at the student body, WOLF LAKE MIDDLE lists that the most-represented group is Black (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 31% Hispanic, 22% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.8:1. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 43% of students at WOLF LAKE MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, WOLF LAKE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.5%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Orange County runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), of which WOLF LAKE MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is WOLF LAKE ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WOLF LAKE MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 55.5%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. WOLF LAKE MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 1,387 (now 1,146). White enrollment moved from 40% to 22% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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