The top reported proficiency rate is 77% in Math. The lowest is 68% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Carillon Elementary School
Carillon Elementary sits on Lockwood Boulevard in Oviedo, serving children from pre-K through fifth grade as a regular public school within Seminole County Public Schools. It is a sizable elementary school for its grade band, drawing from a community that is racially and ethnically mixed: white students make up the largest share, followed by Hispanic students, with meaningful representation from Asian, multiracial, and Black families as well. A little over a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which puts the school on the lower end of economic need relative to many Florida elementaries. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what we reviewed.
On Florida's FAST assessments, the picture in math is strong at the third and fourth grade levels, where proficiency rates sit clearly above what most Florida schools post, and fifth grade math comes in more modestly, still reaching a majority of students but trailing the earlier grades by a meaningful margin. A small group of sixth or higher grade math results appear in the data but are suppressed for that cohort, likely due to small numbers. Reading proficiency in grades three through five clusters in the high sixties, solid but not as sharp as the math highs. Fifth grade science comes in at roughly the same level as third grade reading and math, a positive result for an assessed subject that many elementary schools treat as secondary. Trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say from this source whether performance has been moving up or down. A parent curious about year-over-year momentum would want to ask the school directly.
There are no AP courses or dual-enrollment pathways to describe here; those belong to high school, and Carillon serves only through fifth grade. Graduation rate does not apply for the same reason. Detailed program offerings were not included in what we reviewed, so enrichment, gifted, or STEM programming at the campus level cannot be confirmed from this source.
On the district side, two policy changes from Seminole County Public Schools are directly relevant to elementary families. Starting in the 2025-26 school year, all elementary students are required to keep phones silenced and in their backpacks for the entire school day, a full-day restriction that goes beyond what many districts have adopted. Separately, since the 2024-25 year, work produced with AI tools such as ChatGPT is treated as plagiarism under district policy. Both changes shape the day-to-day environment and are worth knowing before enrollment. On the funding side, Seminole County voters renewed a one-cent infrastructure sales surtax in late 2024 that directs money to school improvements, security, technology, and maintenance, a stable long-term funding stream for facilities across the district.
Oviedo itself is a suburban city in eastern Seminole County, part of the Orlando metro but with a distinct residential feel. Most of its housing stock comes from master-planned communities built across roughly two decades starting in the late twentieth century, with neighborhoods like Tuscawilla, Live Oak Reserve, and Alafaya Woods making up much of the landscape around this part of the city. The area is car-dependent; daily errands and the school commute will almost certainly require driving. The city does have a genuine civic center at Oviedo on the Park, a lakefront amphitheater area with dining and weekend events, and a historic downtown with brick streets and the well-known free-roaming chickens that date to the city's celery-farming era. New multifamily development is underway along major corridors, and the Oviedo Mall site is being considered for mixed-use redevelopment, so the area around the school may see some change in the coming years.
Home prices in the zip code sit noticeably above both the Florida median and the national median, with values that have dipped slightly year over year. Rents are nearly flat. Monthly ownership costs are substantial at current mortgage rates, and the price-to-income ratio is meaningfully above the national average, which is a real constraint for families weighing a move into the attendance zone.
Chronic absenteeism data was not available for this school, and the comparison set for Seminole County contains only a single district, so no peer comparison on proficiency or other metrics was possible.
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