The top reported proficiency rate is 66% in Math. The lowest is 64% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Wetherbee Elementary
Wetherbee Elementary sits on East Wetherbee Road in Orlando's 32824 zip code, a part of the city that publicly reported sources describe as leaning suburban, distinct from the tourist corridors to the southwest and the denser urban core downtown. The school is a regular public elementary serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade within Orange County Public Schools.
The student body is sizable for an elementary school. Hispanic students make up the largest share of enrollment, with Black, white, and Asian students each representing meaningful portions of the population as well. Roughly a little over a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this school on the lower end of economic disadvantage relative to many urban Florida elementaries. Data on English learner rates and special education identification rates were not available in the records reviewed.
On Florida's FAST assessments, Wetherbee's third graders post the school's strongest reading and math results, with proficiency sitting clearly above what the fourth and fifth grades show. The fourth-grade cohort comes in lower in both subjects, while fifth grade recovers somewhat. In fifth-grade science, tested through Florida's Statewide Science Assessment, proficiency lands in a similar range to the upper elementary math grades. Taken together, the school's overall proficiency index places it well above the midpoint among the districts in Orange County, the comparison set available for this school. That is a meaningful position; it suggests Wetherbee is delivering academic outcomes that track above the county baseline rather than at or below it. Parents whose children are in fourth grade may want to ask the school directly about what supports are in place for that year's cohort, since that grade shows the softer numbers across both reading and math.
Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say from the data whether performance has been moving up or down in recent years.
No program offerings data was provided, so enrichment programs, gifted services, arts, or any specialized pathways could not be assessed here. Parents should ask the school directly about those.
The housing market around the school's zip code reflects a neighborhood where home values sit modestly above the Florida statewide benchmark and are running slightly below where they were a year ago, a mild cooling rather than a sharp drop. Rents in the area have barely moved year over year. The estimated monthly mortgage on a typical home here runs to a notable monthly commitment, and the rent-to-income ratio sits in a range that national housing analysts generally consider stretched but not extreme. For a family weighing a move specifically to be in this school's zone, the area is not inexpensive by Florida standards, though it has not seen the sharper appreciation that some other Orlando-area corridors have.
Orlando as a whole is in an active growth phase. Publicly reported sources describe a city diversifying economically beyond its tourism base, with major employers spanning healthcare systems, aerospace and defense contractors, universities, and hospitality. Development downtown has been substantial, though that activity is geographically removed from the Wetherbee attendance zone. The area around the school itself reflects the suburban east side of the city, where residential development has continued to fill in.
The district brief for Orange County Schools returned no confirmed parent-relevant changes within the research window, so district-level policy shifts or capital projects were left out rather than guessed at.
For a family seeking an elementary in east Orlando with above-county-average academic outcomes, a demographically diverse peer environment, and a neighborhood setting that trades urban density for more suburban housing, Wetherbee fits that picture. The softer fourth-grade numbers and the absence of program detail are the main open questions a prospective family would want to bring to the school directly.
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