Orlo Vista Elementary, Orlando FL

Original Research by School Decision on Orlo Vista Elementary

Orlo Vista Elementary is a prekindergarten through fifth grade public school in Orlando, sitting in a zip code on the city's west side. It is part of Orange County Public Schools. The school serves a small elementary enrollment, with Black and Hispanic students together making up the large majority of the student body. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic profile of the surrounding community. Data on English learner rates and special education identification were not reported in what we reviewed.

The state assessment picture, drawn from Florida's FAST assessments and the Statewide Science Assessment, is mixed and worth a parent's close attention. In math, students in tested grades perform at rates that land roughly in the middle range, with third and fourth grade results somewhat stronger than fifth grade. Reading and language arts tell a different story: proficiency rates across all three tested grades are low, with fewer than four in ten students reaching the proficient mark in any of those grades. Fifth grade science results fall in a similar range to the ELA scores. Placed against districts in Orange County, Orlo Vista's overall proficiency index across tested subjects and grades sits in the bottom quartile of that comparison set. These are facts a parent should sit with and may want to discuss directly with the school, particularly around what reading intervention and support structures look like for students who are not yet on grade level.

Multi-year trend data was not available in what we reviewed, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent improvement, decline, or stability over time.

No information was provided on program offerings, course access, or staffing. A graduation rate does not apply here because the school does not serve high school grades.

The surrounding neighborhood is on the west side of Orlando, which publicly reported sources describe as a residential part of a city organized into quite distinct zones. Orlando overall is heavily car-dependent, though the older downtown core and a handful of inner neighborhoods have walkable character. The major employers in the broader region span tourism, healthcare, education, and aerospace, anchored by entities like the major theme parks, large hospital systems, and the University of Central Florida. The city is in an active growth phase, with downtown development projects and infrastructure expansions underway, though that activity is concentrated some distance from Orlo Vista's immediate area.

Home values in the zip code are meaningfully below the Florida state benchmark and also below the national figure, and have dipped modestly over the past year. Rents have edged down slightly as well. By common affordability measures, the rent-to-income ratio in this zip sits at a level that would be considered stretched by standard guidelines, and a mortgage here would carry a monthly obligation that is higher than a comparable rental, which is the reverse of what buyers typically expect and reflects current rate conditions.

Orange County Public Schools is the parent district. The district brief search ran without turning up confirmed recent parent-relevant changes, so district-level strategic priorities or initiatives were left out rather than guessed at.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 363%

School 63% · District 63%

even with state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 465%

School 65% · District 64% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 58% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 59% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 433%

School 33% · District 59% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 539%

School 39% · District 58% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Science

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 62% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 18 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-income39%Higher-income32%6 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income29%Higher-income40%11 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income38%Higher-income44%6 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income65%Higher-income62%3 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income62%Higher-income70%8 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income57%Higher-income53%3 pp gap