Lake Como School

The attendance zone covers Thornton Park, Delaney Park, and the Lake Como neighborhood — roughly bounded by Bumby Avenue to the east, the downtown core to the west, and the area between Colonial Drive and Michigan Street. Exact boundary confirmation is at ocps.net; enter your specific address before assuming you are zoned in, because adjacent streets sometimes fall outside the boundary.

Enrollment is automatic via OCPS if your address falls within the attendance zone. Register through your OCPS zone school online at ocps.net or in person at the school. Gifted & Talented placement is a separate process involving district-administered testing — talk to the front office once enrolled. There is no magnet application; this is a standard zoned school.

Homes in the Thornton Park and Delaney Park zone typically run $450K to $900K, with smaller bungalows and older craftsman homes starting around $450K and larger renovated or new-construction homes in Delaney Park pushing $700K–$1.2M. Delaney Park proper skews higher than Thornton Park. Pull a zone-filtered search for current active inventory — ask Ben for a live list.

Lake Como School has standard OCPS security protocols — controlled campus access, School Resource Officer, and ID badge requirements. The surrounding neighborhoods (Thornton Park, Delaney Park) are among the safer and more actively maintained urban corridors in Orlando, with active neighborhood associations and consistent city investment. Crime data for specific streets is on the City of Orlando open-data portal.

Both serve the downtown Orlando corridor and pull from similar neighborhoods. Lake Como School is zoned (automatic if your address qualifies) and sits on a fully rebuilt 2019 campus with PLTW STEM programming and a Gifted strand. Lake Eola Charter is lottery-based, so there's no guaranteed seat even if you buy nearby. For families who want certainty, being in the Lake Como zone gives you a reliable option; for families who want a charter experience and are OK with the lottery, Lake Eola Charter is worth applying to as a backup.