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WEKIVA HIGH
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WEKIVA HIGH
Set in APOPKA, Florida, WEKIVA HIGH is a big secondary school, one of the schools within ORANGE. It works with 2,148 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 108% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.
Across the 272 schools in ORANGE (207,778 students total), WEKIVA HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, WEKIVA HIGH shows that 50% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 34% Hispanic, 12% White. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 97 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, WEKIVA HIGH is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 55.2%; WEKIVA HIGH posts 40.2%, -14.9 points below that line.
In the broader community, Orange County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,719 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. WEKIVA HIGH is one of 286 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students).
PIEDMONT LAKES MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WEKIVA HIGH ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.9%.
WEKIVA HIGH operates from a suburban location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEKIVA HIGH has showed little movement, going from 2,164 students in 2018 to 2,148 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 21% to 12% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.
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