The top reported proficiency rate is 0% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Princeton House Charter
Princeton House Charter sits on Lee Road in Orlando's northwest corridor, operating as a special education charter school within the Orange County district. Its stated grade span runs from pre-K through twelfth grade, but enrollment data tells a different story: every student enrolled is in fifth grade or below, with the large majority in third grade or earlier. No students appear in any middle or high school grade. A parent considering this school should understand that, at least as currently enrolled, it functions as an early-childhood and elementary setting for students with special needs, not a K-12 pathway in any practical sense.
The school is small, with enrollment well below what most people picture when they imagine a school with a double-digit grade span. The student body is racially and ethnically mixed, with Hispanic students making up the largest share, followed by Black students, white students, and smaller numbers of Asian and multiracial students. Free and reduced-price lunch data and IEP participation rates were not reported in the data available, which is notable given the school's special education designation; a parent would want to ask the school directly about its service model, eligibility criteria, and what supports are in place day to day.
On state assessments, Florida FAST math and ELA results are reported for the tested elementary grades, and the picture is limited. Where scores appear, proficiency is extremely low. Several grade levels show suppressed results, which Florida does when group sizes fall below a reporting threshold. The neighbor comparison places this school's proficiency index in the bottom quartile relative to districts in Orange County. A parent reading that should keep the school's purpose in mind: state standardized proficiency rates are designed around general-education benchmarks, and a school serving students with significant disabilities will routinely produce low or suppressed scores on those measures by design. Those numbers do not describe the quality or appropriateness of special education services; they describe how students performed against grade-level general-education standards. A parent should ask the school what outcome measures it does use to track student growth and progress toward IEP goals, since those tell a more meaningful story for this setting.
No information on graduation rates, course offerings, attendance data, discipline data, or chronic absenteeism was available in the data. The school's charter status means it operates with some autonomy from the district, though it sits within the Orange County system. District-level changes from Orange County that would specifically affect this school were not confirmed in available research, so we left that piece out rather than guess.
The housing market around the school's Lee Road zip code shows home values running modestly below the Florida state benchmark, with a slight year-over-year decline. Rents have also edged slightly lower over the past year. Orlando broadly is in an active development period, with downtown and inner-ring neighborhoods seeing investment and population growth, though the school's address is in a more functional, less tourist-adjacent part of the city.
For a family whose child has been identified for specialized services and is weighing options within Orange County, Princeton House Charter warrants a direct conversation with the school about its specific disability populations served, its therapeutic or instructional model, staff credentials, and how family members stay informed about their child's progress. The publicly available data is thin enough that no strong picture of outcomes or environment can be drawn from it alone.
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