Anonymous wrote:I lived in Oviedo for 6 years. Winter Park is really nice and has spectacular homes. We had a very nice house in Oviedo walking distance to Lawton Elementary and Oviedo High. My aunt moved down since she loved the town and her kids went to Hagerty.

Lake Mary is also nice. I'd choose Winter Park, personally. Some very nice homes there.

Rebecca Puig is an awesome realtor there.

I personally hated living in Florida and could not wait to get back here. But I had an nice house. And it was cheap.

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Anonymous wrote:Take the advice of sending your kids to private, please.

+1 Florida is not known for good schools. You will be very disappointed.

We weren't. My kids went to Winter Park. Fantastic school, very diverse. My kids went to college for free, too! Hard to beat that. Now, if you are scared of brown and/or poor kids, you will probably be disappointed. The schools in FL aren't like they are in say, McLean or Bethesda. Winter Park, and most other high schools, will have kids living in multimillion dollar homes going to school with kids from low income apartment complexes. If you want the hyper-segregated experience of a McLean or Langley, you will have to do private. But most of us think there is value in diverse schools. Different strokes.

I’m from Florida, it’s segregation beats DMV hands-down (I think they invented gated communities!).

There is no way Winter Park was more diverse than McLean, unless you mean you were happy there were less Asians, and more blacks.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/winter-park-fl-population

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/mclean-va-population

And playing the race card for response to school quality is weak anyways.

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Anonymous wrote:According to google, McLean HS has fewer than 300 students. The WPHS graduating class this year has a class of close to 800. It’s almost impossible to compare the stats when you’re talking about such differences in school size. WP has rigorous academic programs, and the kids in those programs compete for top grades. It his highly competitive among the subset. But not across nearly 1000 students.

It also offers more in the way of athletics and extracurricular activities than a school of 250 students can offer.

Your numbers are wrong. McLean HS total population is over 2100 students. That's more like 500-600 per class size. Still smaller, but much closer to 800.

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Anonymous wrote:Take the advice of sending your kids to private, please.

+1 Florida is not known for good schools. You will be very disappointed.

We weren't. My kids went to Winter Park. Fantastic school, very diverse. My kids went to college for free, too! Hard to beat that. Now, if you are scared of brown and/or poor kids, you will probably be disappointed. The schools in FL aren't like they are in say, McLean or Bethesda. Winter Park, and most other high schools, will have kids living in multimillion dollar homes going to school with kids from low income apartment complexes. If you want the hyper-segregated experience of a McLean or Langley, you will have to do private. But most of us think there is value in diverse schools. Different strokes.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents have lived in Winter Springs for almost 40 years now (they moved when I graduated high school, so I have only lived shorter periods with them). But my mother has been a realtor in the Orlando area for nearly 40 years.

Seminole County schools are good because it is like Howard County in MD. It is less dense and more spread out and there is a higher average wealth in each school. Each school is good to very good, but there are limited exceptional schools (for public). Additionally, not as many students (about 66K) Orange County is more like Montgomery County. It has some very wealthy enclaves and it also has some much poorer areas. So you'll have a handful of exceptional schools (again, on the public scale), but you'll also have some mediocre and some poor schools.

As one PP mentioned, Winter Park is like the W schools in MCPS.

Is the DC area spoiled with good schools? Maybe thats the problem.

And more segregated

It’s full of high income people whose kids do well in school, which is why the schools are better.

Looking at the farms rate in windemere and winter park high school they are in the 35%

Yes, I meant the dc area is much wealthier on the whole, which is why suburban dc schools are better. Winter Park is widely considered to be the best part of the Orlando area. Public schools there are considered to be good. I think motivated, smart kids would do well in any winter park public school. But I am not googling farms rates. Most good students are aiming for in state at UF or maybe Emory. It’s different than nova.

How can there be 35% farms and winter park bean exclusive area?

Anonymous wrote:So windemere is like Alexandria where you pay to live in an exclusive area but you can't use the public schools and have to go private. Wtf

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Anonymous wrote:Take the advice of sending your kids to private, please.

+1 Florida is not known for good schools. You will be very disappointed.

We weren't. My kids went to Winter Park. Fantastic school, very diverse. My kids went to college for free, too! Hard to beat that. Now, if you are scared of brown and/or poor kids, you will probably be disappointed. The schools in FL aren't like they are in say, McLean or Bethesda. Winter Park, and most other high schools, will have kids living in multimillion dollar homes going to school with kids from low income apartment complexes. If you want the hyper-segregated experience of a McLean or Langley, you will have to do private. But most of us think there is value in diverse schools. Different strokes.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

If you want to live in an area that is uniformly wealthy, you should stay in McLean. Central Florida isn’t it.

To be honest we are wealthy but the neighborhood is a mishmash of ramblers and large new builds so it's not visually uniformly wealthy. I am mostly concerned about schools and poverty and whether I need to budget for private schools which will change my housing budget.

Yes, you should. $25k/yr per kid.

ok so whats the point of paying more for the house in winter park and Windemere? Does anyone have input on Ovideo and Hagerty High?

Oviedo and Hagerty are both good high schools. But their attendance areas are the true definition of suburban hell. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hagerty+High+School/@28.6261544,-81.1916687,7454m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88e769ce858518ad:0xf2a441eb112135b9!8m2!3d28.625119!4d-81.1779838 Do these types of neighborhoods appeal to you? They don't appeal to me. Give me a smaller home in Winter Park or Baldwin Park or Lake Delaney any day over Oviedo.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

If you want to live in an area that is uniformly wealthy, you should stay in McLean. Central Florida isn’t it.

To be honest we are wealthy but the neighborhood is a mishmash of ramblers and large new builds so it's not visually uniformly wealthy. I am mostly concerned about schools and poverty and whether I need to budget for private schools which will change my housing budget.

Yes, you should. $25k/yr per kid.

ok so whats the point of paying more for the house in winter park and Windemere? Does anyone have input on Ovideo and Hagerty High?

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Anonymous wrote:Take the advice of sending your kids to private, please.

+1 Florida is not known for good schools. You will be very disappointed.

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