NCES CCD 2024-25 17 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Winter Garden, FL

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17 public K-12 schools in Winter Garden from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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17
Schools
16,213
Students
34.9/100
Avg Resource Index
18.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Winter Garden has more public-school enrollment than 90% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Winter Garden's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

8 of Winter Garden's 17 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 58-point gap between Esteem Academy and Ucp West Orange Charter shows the range hidden by Winter Garden's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 10%
School count
Top 19%
Resource Index average
25th percentile
Teacher staffing
20th percentile

West Orange High accounts for 17.0% of all Winter Garden public-school enrollment

That concentration means Winter Garden-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Winter Garden school enrollment varies 131× across entities

Winter Garden school enrollment ranges from 21 students (lowest) to 2,752 students (highest), a spread of 2,731 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Winter Garden operates one school district — a single-district system

Winter Garden's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Winter Garden student-teacher ratio is 18.9:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Esteem Academy 83
2. Lake Whitney Elementary 45
3. Tildenville Elementary 37
4. Sunridge Middle 36
5. Summerlake Elementary 36
6. Water Spring Middle School 35
7. William S Maxey Elementary 35
8. Bridgewater Middle 31
9. Whispering Oak Elementary 31
10. Dillard Street Elementary 31
11. Independence Elementary 30
12. Lakeview Middle 30
13. Horizon High School 29
14. Sunridge Elementary 28
15. West Orange High 26
16. Water Spring Elementary 26
17. Ucp West Orange Charter 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Winter Garden

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Ucp West Orange Charter 71.2/100
  2. 2 Sunridge Elementary 71.0/100
  3. 3 Lakeview Middle 68.5/100
  4. 4 Sunridge Middle 67.1/100
  5. 5 West Orange High 66.4/100

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Which Winter Garden school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Esteem Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Winter Garden schools in this federal-data comparison at 83/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Winter Garden, FL? ▼

Winter Garden has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 16,213 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.9:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.