The top reported proficiency rate is 57% in Science. The lowest is 46% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Lakeville Elementary
Lakeville Elementary sits on Lakeville Road in Apopka, a geographically expansive city in northwest Orange County that has become one of the faster-growing corners of the greater Orlando area. The school serves children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in Orange County Public Schools, the county-wide district headquartered in Orlando.
The community around the school is suburban and car-dependent in the way most of Apopka is. Publicly reported accounts describe the city as blending traces of small-town character with steady outward growth, particularly along the Kelly Park Road corridor to the northwest, where national homebuilders are active and large master-planned communities are in various stages of construction. Home values near the school have dipped slightly year over year and sit close to the statewide median, while rents have also edged down. Renting here runs somewhat below what a mortgage would cost on a typical nearby home, and the rent-to-income ratio implies a meaningful but not unusual housing cost burden for families at middle incomes. Parks, natural areas, and the North Orange Branch of the Orange County Library System provide community anchors; transit exists through the regional Lynx bus network but is limited and primarily serves commuters to the broader Orlando economy.
On state assessments, Lakeville Elementary's results from the most recent year are available for math, ELA, and science. Math proficiency ranged across the tested grades from roughly half of students to somewhat above half, with the middle grade performing best and the upper grade performing below half. ELA results were lower across the board, with third graders coming in at the weakest point and fourth and fifth graders reaching roughly half. Fifth-grade science proficiency came in above half and was the school's strongest single result. Taken together, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile relative to the other districts in Orange County, the comparison set for this school. Parents wanting to understand how the school's results connect to the specific needs or circumstances of its students, and what the school is doing to move proficiency up, may want to ask the school directly.
The school's student population is notably diverse. Black students make up the largest group, followed by Hispanic students, with white students and students of two or more races also present. A large share of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which is context worth holding alongside the test score picture. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs were not available in the data provided.
Enrollment runs at a size consistent with a full elementary school serving its grade band, with the largest cohorts concentrated in the upper grades. Pre-K and kindergarten enrollment is somewhat smaller, which is common in schools where pre-K seats are limited.
No information on specific program offerings was available. The district brief search was exhausted without returning confirmed parent-relevant changes from Orange County Public Schools, so district-level initiatives or school-specific programs are not described here. Civil-rights outcome data were also not available for this school.
Because Lakeville serves only pre-K through fifth grade, there is no graduation rate, and that gap reflects the school's grade band rather than anything else. The school does not have high school grades, so that metric simply does not apply.
For a family weighing where to enroll a young child, Lakeville Elementary is a diverse, mid-sized public elementary school in a fast-changing part of Apopka. The academic proficiency results are below the midpoint of Orange County's districts, and families who want to understand the trajectory and the support structures in place for students who are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks would do well to visit and ask specific questions before enrolling.
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