The top reported proficiency rate is 45% in English language arts. The lowest is 43% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Conway Middle
Conway Middle sits on Anderson Road in the Conway area of southeast Orlando, a residential pocket that sits between the busier corridors leading toward the airport and the more suburban stretches of east Orange County. The school serves sixth through eighth grade as a regular public middle school within Orange County Public Schools.
The student body is a majority-Hispanic community with a substantial share of white and Black students as well. A clear majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school in the economically mixed-to-disadvantaged range for its grade band. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what we reviewed.
Academic performance, measured by Florida's FAST assessments in the most recent school year, tells an uneven story. In ELA, proficiency rates are fairly consistent across all three grade levels, hovering in the mid-forties, meaning roughly half of students are not scoring at the proficient level in reading and writing at any grade. Math is more variable: sixth grade sits at a similar level to ELA, seventh grade drops notably lower, and eighth grade climbs to the strongest result in any subject across any grade at this school. The eighth-grade math result stands out as a real bright spot. Science was assessed only at eighth grade and came in at a level close to the ELA results. Placed against other districts in Orange County, Conway Middle's overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades sits in the bottom quartile. That is a meaningful gap, and a parent with questions about academic trajectory or grade-level readiness would do well to ask the school directly about intervention supports, course pathways, and what the eighth-grade math performance reflects in terms of accelerated coursework.
No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these numbers are moving in any direction.
A graduation rate does not apply here; Conway Middle ends at eighth grade, with no high school cohort to measure.
The school sits within the broader Orange County Public Schools district. We searched for recent parent-relevant district changes and exhausted the search budget before finding confirmed lasting developments, so we left that out rather than guess.
Housing near the school, in the zip code that covers this part of southeast Orlando, runs modestly above the Florida statewide median home value, and year-over-year values have dipped slightly. Rents have also edged down very slightly from the prior year. The rent-to-income ratio sits in a range that suggests affordability is tight but not extreme by national standards, though buying requires a meaningful mortgage commitment at current rates. This is not the downtown arts-district or tourist-corridor version of Orlando; it is a quieter, car-dependent residential part of the city where families tend to put down practical roots.
Orlando overall is growing, with major development concentrated downtown and in the southwest around theme parks and the airport corridor. The Conway neighborhood is not at the center of that activity, but proximity to the airport and to the broader job base, tourism, healthcare, aerospace, and education anchors that define the metro economy, is real and accessible.
Program-specific offerings at Conway Middle were not available in the data we reviewed, so we cannot speak to electives, athletics, arts, or enrichment programs. Families interested in those dimensions should ask the school directly.
What this place amounts to is a mid-sized traditional public middle school in a working and mixed-income part of southeast Orlando, with a predominantly Hispanic student body, economic need present across a majority of students, and academic proficiency results that currently sit below the midpoint for Orange County. The eighth-grade math picture suggests something worth asking about. A family whose child needs strong grade-level academic support, and who wants to understand what structures exist to provide it, would benefit from a direct conversation with the school before drawing conclusions.
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