Gotha Middle School

The attendance zone covers the Gotha community and parts of southwest Windermere — including neighborhoods like Oaks of Windermere, Windermere Chase, Saddlebrook, Blackwood Acres, Lake Lily Oakes, and the Chain of Lakes corridor. The boundary generally runs east toward CR 535 and south toward the Lake Sheen / Lake Cane area. Address-specific zone confirmation is at ocps.net/find-my-school-home — OCPS boundaries shift with periodic rezoning and the only reliable check is your exact street address.

Gotha Middle is a zoned school — no application or lottery required. If your home address falls inside the attendance boundary, your child is automatically eligible to enroll. Contact the school at (407) 521-2360 or gotha_ms@ocps.net to confirm your address and start the enrollment process. Transfer requests are handled through OCPS Student Enrollment at ocps.net.

The zone spans a mix of Gotha and southwest Windermere price points. Gotha proper runs roughly $500K-$800K for single-family homes — smaller lots and older homes on the lower end, larger custom lots above that. The Oaks of Windermere and Windermere Chase neighborhoods trend toward $600K-$900K. A blended zone median sits around $650K. Homes closer to the Windermere border or on lakefront lots can trade well above $1M. Pull a zone-filtered search for current actives.

Gotha Middle operates under standard OCPS security — controlled campus access during the school day, school resource officer coverage, and the ParentSquare communication system for real-time updates. The surrounding Gotha / Windermere area is consistently low-crime for Orange County. The Gotha community's small size (roughly 1,200 residents) and the Windermere adjacency keep the neighborhood character quieter than most of the metro.

Both are OCPS middle schools serving the west Orange County corridor, but they feed different high schools and serve different sub-communities. Gotha Middle feeds to Olympia High (west Orlando, MetroWest / Gotha zone) while SunRidge Middle feeds to West Orange High (Winter Garden / Horizon West zone). Gotha Middle runs Cambridge International; SunRidge has its own program mix. For buyers, zone assignment comes down to the specific address — there's no single better school, and both feed to well-resourced OCPS high schools.