NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Winter Park, FL

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

8,700

Students

32.6/100

Avg Resource Index

20.4:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Winter Park has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Winter Park High enrolls 37.7% of Winter Park's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Winter Park's 8 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 11-point gap between Eastbrook Elementary School and Lake Howell High School shows the range hidden by Winter Park'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 23%
School count: Top 54%
Resource Index average: 18th percentile
Teacher staffing: 14th percentile

Winter Park High accounts for 37.7% of all Winter Park public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Winter Park-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Winter Park school enrollment varies 9.5× across entities

Winter Park school enrollment ranges from 344 students (lowest) to 3,277 students (highest), a spread of 2,933 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Winter Park student-teacher ratio is 20.4:1 — 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

1 of Winter Park's 8 listed schools are charters

13% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Eastbrook Elementary School	37	645	Combined	Seminole
2.	Aloma High Charter	35	447	high	Orange
3.	Killarney Elementary	35	344	Combined	Orange
4.	Winter Park High	34	3,277	high	Orange
5.	Lakemont Elementary	33	629	Combined	Orange
6.	Brookshire Elementary	33	608	Combined	Orange
7.	Aloma Elementary	28	509	Combined	Orange
8.	Lake Howell High School	26	2,241	high	Seminole

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Winter Park

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.

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

Eastbrook Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Winter Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 37/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Winter Park, FL? ▼

Winter Park has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,700 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.4:1.

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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.