Voyager K-8, Kissimmee FL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Voyager K-8

Voyager K-8 is a public school in Kissimmee serving kindergarten through eighth grade, located on Bill Beck Boulevard in Osceola County. Its NCES status is listed as "future," meaning it may be newly opened or still in the process of being fully established in federal records. Enrollment figures, demographic data, and free-and-reduced-price lunch information were not available in the data, so the full picture of the student body cannot be drawn here. No program offerings, staffing ratios, attendance data, or discipline information were provided either.

What is available is a set of Florida state assessment results from the most recent school year, and they tell a reasonably clear story. In math, the school posts strong results in the early grades, with third grade standing out as particularly high. Fourth and fifth grade math scores remain solid, and sixth and eighth grade are in a similar range. Seventh grade math is the clear soft spot, sitting noticeably below the rest of the math results, and a parent would reasonably want to ask the school directly about what is happening at that level. In ELA, the pattern is more compressed. Third grade ELA is the strongest reading result, but scores across fourth through eighth grade cluster in a range that is neither especially high nor especially low, with eighth grade ELA being the weakest of the ELA readings. Science proficiency at both the fifth and eighth grade tested levels comes in solid. Trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these numbers are improving, holding steady, or declining.

No comparison against other schools or districts within Osceola County could be drawn from this data. The comparison set in the data contains only one district in the county, making a meaningful position comparison inapplicable.

The school sits in Kissimmee, a city that carries considerable internal variety. The historic downtown along Broadway is genuinely walkable, anchored by Lake Tohopekaliga, a SunRail commuter station, a long lakefront trail, parks, and an independent restaurant scene. The western corridor near the theme parks is a different environment entirely, car-dependent and shaped by tourism employment. Publicly reported sources describe Kissimmee as one of Central Florida's fastest-growing markets, with new master-planned communities like Kindred expanding the residential footprint alongside continued downtown infill. A planned complete-streets redesign of the downtown core is underway. The local economy is driven largely by tourism and theme-park employment, healthcare anchored by Osceola Regional Medical Center, and a residual cattle ranching tradition in the southern part of the county.

Home values in the zip code serving this school are running slightly above the Florida statewide median and somewhat above the national median, with values having dipped modestly year over year. Rents in the area are also slightly down year over year but remain at a level that, relative to income, represents a meaningful housing cost burden, publicly reported affordability data places rent-to-income at a ratio that signals real cost pressure for many households. The gap between renting and carrying a mortgage is not trivial either, which is a practical reality for families weighing a move into this part of Kissimmee.

District-level context for Osceola was searched but no confirmed parent-relevant changes were found before the research budget was exhausted, so that section was left out rather than filled with speculation.

For a family considering Voyager K-8, the academic picture is one of generally solid math performance in the lower and upper elementary grades, with a meaningful dip in seventh grade math worth investigating, and reading results that are respectable but not exceptional across the middle grades. The school's "future" operational status in federal records is worth clarifying directly with Osceola County schools before making any enrollment decisions.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 390%

School 90% · District 54% · ▲ 36 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 41 pts above county median

Grade 474%

School 74% · District 49% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 27 pts above county median

Grade 581%

School 81% · District 42% · ▲ 39 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 41 pts above county median

Grade 678%

School 78% · District 49% · ▲ 29 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 29 pts above county median

Grade 757%

School 57% · District 38% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 877%

School 77% · District 52% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 29 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 379%

School 79% · District 51% · ▲ 28 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 468%

School 68% · District 47% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 565%

School 65% · District 48% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 668%

School 68% · District 52% · ▲ 16 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 771%

School 71% · District 49% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 860%

School 60% · District 49% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Science

Grade 576%

School 76% · District 46% · ▲ 30 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

Grade 868%

School 68% · District 43% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 33 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

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income69%Higher-income85%16 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income59%Higher-income74%16 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income54%Higher-income75%21 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income58%Higher-income77%19 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income64%Higher-income75%11 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income60%Higher-income60%0 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income78%Higher-income97%19 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income68%Higher-income78%10 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income69%Higher-income91%22 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income71%Higher-income84%14 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income62%Higher-income52%10 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income70%Higher-income81%11 pp gap