OCPS has used an attendance model of
kindergarten through grade 5 for
elementary schools, grades 6–8 for
middle schools, and grades 9–12 for
high schools since July 1987. Before then, grade 6 was part of elementary school and grade 9 was part of middle school ("junior high" in OCPS prior to July 1987). As now required by Florida law, virtually all elementary schools have
pre-kindergarten programs. OCPS has 214 regular-attendance schools as of the 2025–26 school year: 133 elementary, 10 K–8, 41 middle, 23 high, and seven exceptional student education centers. The district also has an
adult education system with six dedicated campuses and night classes at most high schools, four dedicated
special education schools as well as a hospital/homebound program, and dozens of alternative education centers, including
charter schools. Six of the high schools in OCPS have separate ninth-grade centers, three of them off-site of the main campus, built after the shift from K–6/7–9/10–12 to K–5/6–8/9–12. OCPS schools offer a variety of advanced studies, magnet programs, and scholastic academies that allow students to specialize in particular subject areas. Students must apply by submitting an electronic application to the School Choice Services magnet office by a set deadline and gain acceptance in order to participate in most programs. Programs include
Advanced Placement (AP), agriscience, artificial intelligence, aviation & aerospace,
AVID,
Cambridge AICE, criminal justice, culinary arts, digital media & gaming,
dual enrollment, education, entertainment production, entrepreneurship, esports, finance, fine arts, first responders, foreign languages / dual languages, gifted academy,
International Baccalaureate (IB), international studies, healthcare, hospitality & tourism, laser
photonics, law, leadership, medicine, nursing, performing arts, Pre-Advanced Placement (Pre-AP), Pre-International Baccalaureate (Pre-IB), STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), technical theatre, veterinary animal science, and visual arts. As of July 2023, the schools of OCPS are divided into seven groups called school cadres: Elementary, Middle/K-8, High, School Transformation, Exceptional Student Education, Career and Technical Education, and School Choice. In order to provide more direct support to schools from the district, schools are now grouped primarily by grade level instead of by geographic learning communities which were in place for over 20 years. Skyrocketing land and materials costs, however, have outpaced faster-than-expected sales tax revenue increases and slowed progress. Many projects had been pushed back, and some had been cancelled altogether. An extension of the half-penny sales tax was passed in 2014 and again in 2024 for another ten years. Since 2003, OCPS has opened 64 new schools and renovated or replaced 132 schools. • Pershing K-8 School • Wedgefield K-8 School • Windy Ridge K-8 School
Middle schools • Apopka Memorial Middle School • Avalon Middle School • Bridgewater Middle School • Carver Middle School • Chain Of Lakes Middle School • College Park Middle School • Conway Middle School • Corner Lake Middle School • Discovery Middle School • Freedom Middle School • Glenridge Middle School • Gotha Middle School • Hamlin Middle School • Horizon West Middle School • Howard Middle School • Hunter's Creek Middle School • Innovation Middle School • Judson B. Walker Middle School • Lake Nona Middle School • Lakeview Middle School • Legacy Middle School • Liberty Middle School • Lockhart Middle School • Luminary Middle School • Maitland Middle School • Meadow Woods Middle School • Meadowbrook Middle School • Memorial Middle School • Ocoee Middle School • Odyssey Middle School • Piedmont Lakes Middle School • Roberto Clemente Middle School • Robinswood Middle School • South Creek Middle School • Southwest Middle School • SunRidge Middle School • Timber Springs Middle School • Union Park Middle School • Water Spring Middle School • Westridge Middle School • Wolf Lake Middle School
High schools Prior to 1952, there were only two high schools in the City of Orlando:
Orlando High School and
Jones High School, which was a
segregation-era Black-only high school until integration was enforced. Other municipalities in the county had high schools:
Apopka, Florida;
Winter Park, Florida;
Ocoee, Florida;
Winter Garden, Florida (Lakeview H.S.), and
Eatonville, Florida (Hungerford H.S.). In 1952, Orlando High was split into what became
Edgewater High School and
William R. Boone High School. Originally to be named "Orlando North" and "Orlando South", respectively, Orlando South took its modern name after its principal, William R. Boone, died before it opened. Orlando North took the name of the road it was built on, Edgewater Drive. The former Orlando High campus became Howard Middle School. Jones High moved to its present location in 1952, which was reconstructed in 2004. In 1975, Ocoee High School and Lakeview High School were closed (their old campuses then housed Junior High schools of the same names) and their students went to the new West Orange High School. 30 years later, a new Ocoee High School was built and opened in 2005. Robert F. Hungerford High School, founded in 1897 as the Robert F. Hungerford Normal and Industrial School in the historically black community of Eatonville, was renamed Wymore Tech and Wymore Career Education Center in the 1960s until it became the Hungerford Preparatory School in the late 1990s and operated as a district-wide magnet school without a specific geographic attendance zone. OCPS closed Hungerford Prep in 2009. Approximately half of the district's high schools were opened after 2000, not including reconstructed campuses for existing schools. •
Apopka High School (1931) •
William R. Boone High School (1952) •
Colonial High School (1958) •
Cypress Creek High School (1992) •
Dr. Phillips High School (1987) •
East River High School (2009) •
Edgewater High School (1952) •
Maynard Evans High School (1955) •
Freedom High School (2003) •
Horizon High School (2021) •
Innovation High School (2024) •
Jones High School (1895) •
Lake Buena Vista High School (2021) •
Lake Nona High School (2009) •
Oak Ridge High School (1959) •
Ocoee High School (2005) •
Olympia High School (2001) •
Timber Creek High School (2001) •
University High School (1990) •
Wekiva High School (2007) •
West Orange High School (1975) •
Windermere High School (2017) •
Winter Park High School (1927)
Exceptional Education Schools • ESE Transition • Esteem Academy • Hospital Homebound • La Amistad • Magnolia • Silver Pines Academy
Alternative Education Schools • Acceleration East • Acceleration West • Devereux Treatment Program • Expecting Excellence Academy • Juvenile Detention • Juvenile Offenders Program • OCVS Virtual Franchise • OCVS Virtual Instruction •
Pace Center For Girls • Positive Pathways Transition Center • Project Compass • Randall Academy • Simon Youth Foundation Academy • Universal Education Center • Village
Charter Schools • Access • Aloma High • Aspire Academy • Bridgeprep Academy • Central Florida Leadership Academy • Chancery High • Cornerstone Charter Academy ES & MS • Cornerstone Charter Academy HS • Econ River High • Hope • Innovation Montessori Ocoee • Innovations Middle • Lake Eola • Legacy High • Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy • Mater Academy Narcoossee • Oakland Avenue • Olympus Academy • Orlando Science Schools • Passport • Pinecrest Academy Avalon • Pinecrest Collegiate Academy • Pinecrest Creek • Pinecrest Preparatory • Princeton House • Renaissance Charter at Crown Point • Renaissance Charter at Chickasaw • Renaissance Charter at Goldenrod • Renaissance Charter at Hunter's Creek • Sheeler High • Sunshine High • UCP Bailes Community Academy • UCP East Orange • UCP Orange • UCP Pine Hills • UCP Transitional Learning Academy High • UCP West Orange • Workforce Advantage Academy == Footnotes ==