Summary:
Zip code 32798, located in Zellwood, Florida, is served by a single elementary school, Zellwood Elementary, which educates students from Pre-K through 5th grade as part of the Orange County school district.
Zellwood Elementary has an enrollment of 564 students with a student-teacher ratio of 17:1 and per-student spending of $11,526. The school has received a 2-star overall rating and its state percentile rank has declined over the past three years, from the 48th percentile to the 31st percentile. A key concern is a significant drop in academic proficiency as students move from 3rd to 5th grade. For example, in the most recent data, 3rd Grade English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency was 61%, but this fell to 42% by 5th grade, creating a 21-point gap compared to the district average. A similar trend is seen in math, where 3rd grade proficiency (58%) drops to 52% in 5th grade. The school's chronic absenteeism rate is 33.8%, which is slightly better than the district average but worse than the state average.
Despite these challenges, the school shows relative strength in early grades and in science, where 5th grade proficiency (52%) is closer to the state average. Math scores are consistently higher than ELA scores across all grades, which is the opposite of the district trend. The declining state ranking, despite relatively stable test scores, suggests that other schools in Florida are improving at a faster pace. With moderate economic disadvantage (51.6% free/reduced lunch) and reasonable resources, the primary issues appear to be related to maintaining academic growth in upper elementary grades and addressing chronic absenteeism.
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