Original Research by School Decision on Maynard Evans High
Maynard Evans High sits on Silver Star Road in west Orlando, a part of the city that is residential and largely removed from both the tourist corridors in the southwest and the urban core downtown. The school serves grades nine through twelve as a regular public high school in Orange County Public Schools.
Enrollment is substantial for a high school, drawing students across all four grade levels in roughly comparable numbers. The student body is predominantly Black, with a meaningful Hispanic population and small shares of other racial and ethnic groups. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this among the more economically challenged schools in its context.
State testing data is limited here. The only academic performance record in the data comes from a science assessment tied to a prior school year, and that result was suppressed, meaning the state did not publish it, likely due to small tested counts at that grade level. No proficiency data across English language arts, math, or other subjects was available in what was provided, and multi-year trend data was similarly absent. The comparison fact-set, which positions schools relative to districts in Orange County, could not be applied to Evans because no entity-level proficiency scores were present. A parent who wants a fuller academic picture should ask the school directly for its most recent Florida School Grades report and subject-level assessment results.
Graduation rate data was also not in the payload. That is a gap worth following up on, and the school's counseling office or the Florida Department of Education site would be the right places to look.
Information on AP or dual-enrollment course offerings, extracurriculars, career and technical pathways, discipline patterns, attendance rates, or staffing ratios was not available in the data provided. Whether Evans offers pathways that connect to the Orlando-area economy, which includes healthcare systems like AdventHealth and Orlando Health, aerospace employers like Lockheed Martin, and the UCF Downtown and Valencia College campuses that now anchor Creative Village near downtown, is genuinely worth asking about. Those institutions are publicly reported as significant regional employers and educational anchors, and a high school with strong dual-enrollment or career connections to them would be a concrete advantage for graduates entering that market.
The neighborhood around Silver Star Road carries home values noticeably below both the Florida state benchmark and the national figure, and rents in the zip code have recently been flat or slightly softening. For a family weighing affordability, west Orlando offers more accessible housing than the city's growth corridors to the east and south. The broader city is in an active development phase, with major investment concentrated downtown and near the theme park corridors, but the school's immediate area reflects older residential Orlando rather than those growth zones.
Data on English learner populations and students with individualized education programs was not reported, so it is not possible to characterize what specialized support services look like at Evans. That is another area a parent would want to ask about directly.
What the data makes clear is that Maynard Evans is a large, predominantly Black, economically mixed high school in a part of Orlando that sits outside the city's most prominent development and investment activity. The academic picture from available records is incomplete, and a family making a serious enrollment decision should treat the gaps here as open questions rather than conclusions.
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