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WEKIVA HIGH
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 55% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-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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