Community+Report

=Community Report=

Sunset Park Elementary is located in Southwest Orange County. The school opened in 2008. Sunset Park was a relief school for Windermere Elementary and Whispering Oaks Elementary. The school is located less than two miles from the back gate of Walt Disney World.

Our school consists of one main building along with 20 learning cottages.

Due to the large attendance zone of our school, the majority of our students ride one of the 12 busses that serve our school. We also have about 400 students that are car riders or walkers.

In Sunset Park’s attendance zone, we have two housing complexes that are subsided housing. We have seen an increase in transient students this year due to the countries economic situation. There is an increase in foreclosures in our attendance zone.

Sunset Park is a K through 5 school. On staff, we have teachers that meet the needs of our students in the area of varying exceptionalities, speech and language. We also have county staff that visits during various times for students that need physical therapy and adaptive physical education. Our gifted students attend class at Whispering Oaks once a week.

Our ESOL student population is approximately 350 students. These students are in regular classrooms with ESOL certified or endorsed teachers.

Our grade level student breakdown:

K – 209 1 – 228 2 – 205 3 – 198 4 – 184 5 – 188

Total number of students - 1219

Sunset Park is being relieved for the 2009- 2010 school year. We are losing approximately half of our students to the new relief school.

Ethnicity

52% - Caucasian 29% - Hispanic 10% - Other 9% - African American

33% of our students receive free or reduced lunch.