1
Enrollment
2,752
High
DISTRICT 1,338 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ORANGE·NCES 120144001454
WEST ORANGE HIGH
1625 BEULAH RD, WINTER GARDEN, FL 34787 · (407) 905-2400 · Orange County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL2,752 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
26.2:1
105 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.2:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
558 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 682 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 655 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 695 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 720 | 26% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from ORANGE. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
66.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
37.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.9% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.0% | 22.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like WEST ORANGE HIGH
WEST ORANGE HIGH's state test result (57.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST ORANGE HIGH this school | 2,752 | 20.3% | 57.6% |
| PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL LAKE WORTH | 2,881 | 20.5% | 68.2% |
| WINTER PARK HIGH WINTER PARK | 3,277 | 24.0% | 62.6% |
| LAKE MINNEOLA HIGH SCHOOL MINNEOLA | 2,309 | 21.4% | 52.1% |
| LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL LAND O LAKES | 2,233 | 18.4% | 56.7% |
| WEST BOCA RATON HIGH SCHOOL BOCA RATON | 2,376 | 22.6% | 72.0% |
Matched among Florida high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where WEST ORANGE HIGH ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #205 of 555 | #10 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #321 of 549 ▲ 130 | #20 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.9% | #154 of 559 ▲ 26 | #8 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,752 | #41 of 830 | #10 of 49 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 26.2:1 | #496 of 575 | #27 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.5% | #129 of 594 | #6 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.3% | #557 of 630 | #25 of 31 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.1% | #219 of 289 | #13 of 19 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
2,752
+341 (+14%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 2,733
Student : Teacher
26.2:1
was 22.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 2,752 | 105 | 26.2:1 | 20% (558) |
| 2023-24 | 2,792 | 110 | 25.4:1 | 26% (735) |
| 2022-23 | 2,816 | 112 | 25.1:1 | 34% (960) |
| 2020-21 | 2,411 | 107 | 22.5:1 | 38% (920) |
| 2017-18 | 2,869 | 125 | 22.9:1 | 35% (1,010) |
| 2015-16 | 4,124 | 186 | 22.2:1 | 34% (1,414) |
| 2010-11 | 3,232 | 145 | 22.3:1 | 33% (1,057) |
| 2000-01 | 4,261 | 193 | 22.1:1 | 26% (1,119) |
| 1990-91 | 2,733 | 143 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WEST ORANGE HIGH.
About WEST ORANGE HIGH
WEST ORANGE HIGH serves students in WINTER GARDEN, Florida, as a large high school. The student body numbers 2,752 students, from grades 9 through 12. Average enrollment for high schools in Florida is about 1,035, so this school runs 166% bigger than that.
WEST ORANGE HIGH is one school in a 272-school district, ORANGE, which enrolls 207,778 students.
Enrollment at WEST ORANGE HIGH is mixed, with White students the largest group at 47%. It is also 31% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% Asian, and 3% multiracial. WEST ORANGE HIGH has a diversity index of 66%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school employs the equivalent of 105 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 26.2:1. The average ratio among high schools in Florida is 23.5:1, lower than at this school. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at WEST ORANGE HIGH is 20%. On average, public schools in Orange County report 39%.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, WEST ORANGE HIGH is 13.4 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 57.6% actual, 71.0% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Florida.
Within Orange County, median household income is about $79,719, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Orange County number 286 and enroll about 216,813.
The school nearest to WEST ORANGE HIGH is HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND, at a distance of about 0.3 miles. Within five miles of WEST ORANGE HIGH, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 70.6%; WEST ORANGE HIGH's is 57.6%, ranking 5th of 5.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 14%, from 2,411 to 2,752. The number of students per teacher rose from 22.5 to 26.2 over 4 years.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,471,937
Census ACS
Median income
$79,719
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
286
216,813 students
Quick facts
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- APOPKA HIGHHigh · 3,446 students
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- COLONIAL HIGHHigh · 3,239 students
- WINDERMERE HIGHHigh · 3,217 students
- CYPRESS CREEK HIGHHigh · 3,127 students
Other schools in WINTER GARDEN
- HORIZON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,685 students
- BRIDGEWATER MIDDLEMiddle · 1,178 students
- SUNRIDGE MIDDLEMiddle · 1,108 students
- WATER SPRING MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,064 students
- WATER SPRING ELEMENTARYElementary · 1,013 students
- HAMLIN MIDDLEMiddle · 953 students
Other West Orange High schools
One other US public school is named West Orange High. WEST ORANGE HIGH is the largest of the 2.
- West Orange High SchoolWEST ORANGE, NJ · 2,106 students
Nearby schools
- HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND0.3 mi · 105
- ESTEEM ACADEMY0.3 mi · 21
- ESE TRANSITION0.3 mi · 131
- UCP WEST ORANGE CHARTER1.2 mi · 312
- LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY1.2 mi · 549
- WILLIAM S MAXEY ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 523
Frequently asked questions
About WEST ORANGE HIGHHow large is WEST ORANGE HIGH?
WEST ORANGE HIGH enrolls approximately 2,752 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does WEST ORANGE HIGH serve?
WEST ORANGE HIGH serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at WEST ORANGE HIGH?
Approximately 26.2:1 students per teacher at WEST ORANGE HIGH.
How diverse is WEST ORANGE HIGH?
WEST ORANGE HIGH reports a student body of 47% White, 31% Hispanic, 13% Black, 6% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is WEST ORANGE HIGH public or private?
WEST ORANGE HIGH is a public K-12 school, overseen by ORANGE.
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