Shenandoah Elementary, Orlando FL

Original Research by School Decision on Shenandoah Elementary

Shenandoah Elementary sits on South Conway Road in Orlando's southeast, part of Orange County Public Schools. It serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade at a size that, for its grade band, falls into the small-to-mid range. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school's student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial white minority and smaller Black, Asian, and multiracial populations. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in what we reviewed.

On Florida's FAST assessments, the most recent results show proficiency rates in the mid-to-upper fifties for third-grade math and ELA, which is the pattern where Shenandoah performs at its strongest. By fifth grade, those rates have slipped into the mid-forties for ELA and just below half for math, with fifth-grade science sitting in the low fifties. The overall proficiency picture, averaged across tested subjects and grades, places Shenandoah in the bottom quartile relative to districts in Orange County, which is the comparison set available for this review. That comparison set is small, so parents should weigh this positioning alongside the raw results and consider asking the school directly about instructional supports and how performance has changed over recent years. Multi-year trend data was not available, so we cannot say whether these figures represent improvement or decline.

No information was provided on programs, course offerings, staffing ratios, or discipline patterns, and the district brief for Orange County yielded no confirmed parent-relevant changes before our research concluded. Those are gaps worth exploring with the school or the district directly.

The neighborhood around Shenandoah sits in a residential stretch of southeast Orlando that is decidedly more suburban in character than Orlando's walkable downtown core or the tourist zones to the southwest. The broader city is car-dependent and spread out, and this part of Orlando reflects that. For families weighing the housing market, home values in the surrounding zip code have edged downward year over year, running roughly in line with the state average and modestly above the national one. Rents have also softened slightly. Monthly mortgage costs relative to income place this area at a stretch relative to national norms, though renting runs somewhat lower than buying. Orlando's economy is anchored by major employers across tourism, healthcare, and aerospace, and the city is in an active growth phase, with large development projects concentrated downtown and at the airport, though those are some distance from Shenandoah's immediate surroundings.

A family choosing this school is choosing a neighborhood public elementary with a predominantly Hispanic, economically mixed student body, in a quieter suburban corner of a large, diverse city. The academic results in the upper elementary grades are an area a parent may want to explore further with the school, particularly around what supports are available as students move from third grade toward fifth.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 357%

School 57% · District 63% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 453%

School 53% · District 64% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 549%

School 49% · District 58% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 356%

School 56% · District 59% · ▼ 3 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 459%

School 59% · District 59% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 545%

School 45% · District 58% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Science

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 62% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

This schoolORANGE, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income44%Higher-income70%26 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income53%Higher-income67%14 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income31%Higher-income56%25 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income39%Higher-income77%37 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income43%Higher-income65%21 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income48%Higher-income50%2 pp gap