Original Research by School Decision on Oasis Residential Center
Oasis Residential Center is a small alternative school operated by the Osceola County School District, serving students in grades seven through twelve at a South Orange Blossom Trail address in Intercession City, Florida. Its defining characteristic is its residential nature, which places it in a distinct category from conventional middle and high schools. Parents comparing this to a neighborhood school or a standard alternative day program should understand that the residential model exists for a specific population, and the school's profile only makes sense in that context.
Enrollment is very small, with students spread thinly across six grade levels. The high school grades carry the bulk of the population. The demographic makeup is a mix of Black, Hispanic, and white students, with a modest share qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, though data on English learners and students with IEPs was not reported and those gaps are worth asking the school about directly.
State assessment data for math, ELA, and science was suppressed across all tested grades and subjects, which is typical for settings this size: when tested groups are small enough, Florida suppresses results to protect student privacy. This means no proficiency picture is available from the data. The comparison set for Osceola County produced no applicable metrics for this school, for the same reason. A parent should not read the absence of test scores as a sign of poor performance, but they also cannot read it as a strength. Anyone wanting to understand academic outcomes would need to ask the school directly for any internal progress or outcome data it tracks.
No graduation rate was reported. For a residential alternative school serving a special population, standard graduation rate calculations often do not apply or are not published in the same way as for comprehensive high schools, and the data here is consistent with that pattern. Course access, staffing ratios, attendance, and discipline data were all absent from the available records.
The school sits in Intercession City, a small unincorporated community west of Kissimmee along Highway 17/92. Publicly available descriptions characterize it as a low-density rural-suburban place, a mix of older ranch homes, manufactured housing, and newer construction, with no walkable commercial center of its own. Civic and commercial life is oriented toward Kissimmee and the broader Osceola County area. The major employment base in the region spans hospitality, healthcare, and education, with large employers publicly reported to include theme park operations, hospital systems, and the school district itself. Transit is limited, operating as a reservation-based flex-route van service rather than fixed routes. The regional trail system along Shingle Creek provides outdoor recreation access nearby.
Housing in the zip code covering this area is priced well below the Florida statewide median, and values have shown modest year-over-year appreciation, running against a statewide softening trend. Osceola County as a whole has been growing rapidly, and publicly reported real estate sources describe the Intercession City area as benefiting from proximity to Kissimmee, ChampionsGate, and the theme park corridor.
No program offerings, course catalog, or extracurricular information was available in the data. The district brief search was exhausted without surfacing recent Osceola district-level changes relevant to this school.
For a family encountering this school's name, the most important thing to understand is that Oasis Residential Center is not a school one chooses the way one might choose a magnet or charter. It is a residential alternative placement, and the pathway into it runs through the district or a referring agency. A parent wanting to understand placement criteria, program structure, therapeutic or academic supports, and how the school measures student progress would need to reach out to the Osceola County School District or the school itself, as the available data does not address those questions.
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