Osceola Virtual Franchise (secondary), St Cloud FL

Original Research by School Decision on Osceola Virtual Franchise (secondary)

Osceola Virtual Franchise (Secondary) is a small, fully online public school operated by the Osceola County School District and based at an administrative address in St. Cloud, Florida. Its enrollment spans kindergarten through twelfth grade, though calling it a traditional school in any physical sense would be misleading. Students learn remotely, and the school draws from across Osceola County rather than from a defined attendance zone. The peer environment, social life, and daily routine are structured differently from a conventional campus, and families choosing this path typically do so because the format fits a specific need: a medical situation, a scheduling constraint, elite athletic or artistic training, or simply a strong preference for self-paced learning at home.

The enrollment is small for a school spanning so many grade levels, and it is notably thin in the elementary grades, where only a handful of students appear at each grade. The upper middle and high school grades hold more students, with the largest cohorts in eleventh and twelfth grade. The demographic composition is roughly split between Hispanic and white students, with smaller shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch is well below the district and state averages, which is worth knowing: virtual school populations in Florida tend to skew toward families with stable home environments and parental capacity to support remote learning, and that pattern appears here.

State assessment data for the most recent year shows a mixed picture that a parent should read carefully. Grades three and five results in both math and ELA are suppressed, likely because the student groups are too small to report publicly. Where results are available, the pattern shifts notably by grade level. Fourth-grade math proficiency falls on the lower side, while seventh and eighth grade math results are strong, and eighth grade ELA proficiency is particularly high. Sixth and seventh grade ELA results are also solid. The eighth-grade science result is strong. The variability across grade levels, combined with the suppression of several years' data due to small group sizes, makes it difficult to draw a reliable overall picture. A parent considering this school for a student in the elementary or lower middle grades should ask the school directly about academic outcomes and support structures, since the available data does not tell a complete story.

No multi-year trend data was available, so whether these results represent improvement, stability, or decline cannot be determined from what was reported. Graduation rate data was listed as missing. Program offerings, staffing ratios, and chronic absenteeism data were not provided. These are the kinds of operational details that vary significantly across virtual programs and that families should investigate directly with the school.

The school sits within Osceola County's broader education system, and relative comparisons among county districts were not applicable here given how few districts operate in the county.

St. Cloud itself is the fastest-growing incorporated city in Osceola County, publicly reported as having more than doubled in population since around the turn of the century, with continued residential development underway in communities along the county's eastern corridors. The housing market shows home values slightly below the Florida state average and trending modestly downward year over year, while rents have edged upward. The area carries a rent-to-income ratio that sits at the higher end of comfortable. The city's historic downtown along the shore of East Lake Tohopekaliga has a pedestrian-oriented feel with locally owned shops and restaurants, though most of the city's commercial activity runs along the U.S. 192 corridor and is auto-dependent. Major employers include healthcare and retail anchors, with a tech-sector employment initiative in the NeoCity development expected to add higher-wage jobs in coming years.

For a family evaluating this school, the core question is whether virtual instruction fits the student. The academic results where they exist suggest capable outcomes at the upper middle school level, but the thin and partly suppressed data at other grade levels, and the absence of graduation and attendance figures, mean a parent is working with an incomplete picture. Reaching out to the school for more detail on curriculum structure, teacher contact expectations, and support for struggling students would be a reasonable next step.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=90%Cohort of 48 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

867 schools plotted. 183 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 442%

School 42% · District 49% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 777%

School 77% · District 38% · ▲ 39 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 40 pts above county median

Grade 891%

School 91% · District 52% · ▲ 39 pts above district

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 43 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 458%

School 58% · District 47% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 683%

School 83% · District 52% · ▲ 31 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

Grade 783%

School 83% · District 49% · ▲ 34 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

Grade 893%

School 93% · District 49% · ▲ 44 pts above district

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 39 pts above county median

Science

Grade 880%

School 80% · District 43% · ▲ 37 pts above district

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 45 pts above county median

This schoolOSCEOLA, 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

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income18%Higher-income50%32 pp gap