Moving to Orange County FL Orlando from McLean to Windemere, schools are bad? Oviedo is better? Help
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We are considering moving from McLean to the Orlando area.
From my research, the orange county areas of Windemere, Dr. Phillips, and Lake Onano are the best places, but the schools look bad with a lot of poverty. However, Seminole County Ovideo has ok schools, but the houses are half the price. What do people in Orlando do with schools? Do the affluent areas go private? How come Seminole County has much better schools than Orange County? We're currently in a 3.5M house in the McLean area using the excellent public schools We can afford 2.5M, but it doesn't seem that Oviedo has homes at that price. Only the areas mentioned in Orange County seem to have houses in our higher price range. |
Anonymous
| Why Orlando area? Is this a job related move? |
Anonymous
Job-related and we want to move to a more affordable area. The DC area is getting too expensive. |
Anonymous
Orlando native here. You should live in Winter Park with that budget. People in your shoes send their kids to Lake Highland Prep or Trinity Prep. Both are expensive but less than DC area top privates. I think Winter Park public schools are good and would send my kids there though. They are more economically diverse than public schools in McLean, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. |
Anonymous
+1 This is great advice. |
Anonymous
You live in a 3.5M house and DC is too expensive??!!! Have you lived in Central Florida before? It’s going to be a culture shock. Even private schools are going to be not really that academic, Florida is basically a state of hedonists. Just plan on going private, and still understand it won’t be anything like the education you would get at a DC private or McLean school |
Anonymous
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Consider commute. Traffic is awful. Winter park proper (32789 zip code) has great schools (public or private).
Windermere has two parts (town and unincorporated Orange County). Windermere (town) has a great elementary school (Windermere elementary). The high school for the town of Windermere is Olympia. Olympia high school has an APEX program that is amazing. Windermere high school serves the unincorporated area and I don’t know how it does. Windermere prep is the main non-denominational private school. Plenty of parents use Lake Highland from Windermere also but it’s a bit of a drive. |
Anonymous
This. I’m the PP who told you to live in Winter Park, but Windermere can also be great if you love golf and want to live the country club lifestyle. I think you’d still end up trekking to the private schools on the north end of town though so you shouldn’t live there. |
Anonymous
| OP here, thanks for the advice on the area, how do these private/charter schools work and do you get a voucher for private school? |
Anonymous
From looking at us news and greatschools I have concerns on the public schools in winter park and windemere. Maybe schools aren't tied to properties like the DC area? Is that why there are so many gated communities? Also I don't care about golf and we are in our early 40s and can work remotely. |
Anonymous
Lol nice troll. No, you will not get a voucher for prep school living in a multimillion dollar home. |
Anonymous
Sorry not a troll, I am just wondering how the school choice thing works, it sounded like it didn't matter on income but maybe i am wrong |
Anonymous
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from my research, Hagerty High in Ovideo is the best non magnet hight school in orlando where windemere and winter garden are lower
https://www.greatschools.org/florida/oviedo/7692-Hagerty-High-School/ https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/florida/rankings/orlando-fl-36740 |
Anonymous
I am leaning toward troll as well, but I'm thinking OP is probably from another country. |
Anonymous
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Nationally ranked Mclean high is 135, Hagerty is 896, winter park is 1379, and Windemere high is 1626.
Seems like Hagerty is equivalent to Lake Braddock high, and Washington and Lee in Arlington, VA, or Osbourne in Manassas, which comparatively are a major step down. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools/mclean-high-school-20452 https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/florida/districts/seminole-county-public-schools/hagerty-high-school-5577 https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/florida/districts/orange-county-public-schools/winter-park-high-school-5314 https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/florida/districts/orange-county-public-schools/windermere-high-school-201087 https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/search?state-urlname=virginia&ranked=true |