Live in Wadeview Park
Both zoned public schools stand inside the boundary, the commuter train is across Orange Avenue, and the 2025 roll puts the median house at $407,190.
Wadeview Park is neighborhood 91 on the City of Orlando's layer, about 331 acres and the residential half of SoDo: South Orange Avenue on the west, Kaley Street on the north, Michigan Street on the south, and a long tail running east along Michigan toward Bumby Avenue. Of the 987 parcels on the 2025 state assessment roll, 712 are single-family, with a median actual year built of 1955, a median living area of 1,564 square feet and a median just value of $407,190. Two things make it unusual for central Florida. Both zoned public schools, Blankner for kindergarten through eighth grade and Boone High School after it, stand inside the boundary rather than a drive away, and the Orlando Health/Amtrak station is immediately across Orange Avenue with SunRail calling there on weekdays. It shares that school assignment with Delaney Park across Kaley Street, where the same query against the same roll returns a median just value of $640,275. No community development district reaches this ground, so the tax bill carries the 18.0878 city and county mills and nothing a developer created.
You can walk your children to both of their schools
Neighborhood 91 on the City of Orlando's political neighborhoods layer, about 331 acres: South Orange Avenue on the west, East Kaley Street on the north and Michigan Street on the south, crossing Delaney Avenue, South Mills Avenue, Fern Creek Avenue and Brown Avenue, and narrowing at its eastern end to a strip along Michigan Street toward Bumby Avenue.
Wadeview Park is neighborhood 91 on the City of Orlando's own layer, about 331 acres and the residential half of SoDo. Orange Avenue is the western line, Kaley Street the northern one and Michigan Street the southern one, and at the eastern end the boundary narrows to a strip running along Michigan toward Bumby Avenue. It is a mid-century neighborhood rather than a pre-war one: of the 987 parcels on the 2025 state assessment roll, 712 are single-family, their median actual year built is 1955, their median living area is 1,564 square feet, and their median just value is $407,190.
Both of the zoned public schools stand inside the boundary. On Orange County's 2026-27 attendance zones this neighborhood goes to Blankner School, which runs kindergarten through eighth grade so there is no separate middle school step, and then to Boone High School on Kaley Street. Both are physically inside neighborhood 91. In a metro built for cars, where the Milk District is zoned to a high school four miles away, that is worth stating plainly.
The same assignment costs a great deal more one street north. Delaney Park, immediately across Kaley Street, is zoned to Blankner and Boone as well, and the same query against the same roll returns a median just value of $640,275 there against $407,190 here. The gap is roughly $233,000 and what it mostly buys is house: a median of 2,277 square feet in Delaney Park against 1,564 here, on larger lots and older streets. If the schools are the reason you are looking south of downtown, this is the cheaper way to get them, and the trade is 700 square feet.
The train is real and it is not a metro. The Orlando Health/Amtrak station sits on Columbia Street just across Orange Avenue, shared between SunRail and Amtrak, with LYNX Route 40 connecting at the platform. SunRail runs Monday to Friday only. There is no weekend service anywhere on the line, so a Saturday downtown is still a car journey, and station parking is subject to city ordinance and availability rather than guaranteed. Used for a weekday commute to downtown or to the hospital campus it works well, and that is the honest limit of it.
Nothing on the tax bill here was created by a developer. Florida's Chapter 190 community development districts date from 1980, and this ground was built out decades earlier, so the annual charge that dominates the Lake Nona arithmetic simply does not exist here: an Orlando address pays 18.0878 mills for the 2025 tax year and whatever non-ad-valorem lines the county adds. At a USGS-measured 96.5 feet above sea level and forty miles inland this is a wind and roof question rather than a surge one, and about 71 percent of the houses were standing in 1994, well ahead of the statewide wind code of 2002. One thing on the western edge is worth knowing: the Pulse site on South Orange Avenue, where the city began removing the building on 18 March 2026, is being built into a permanent memorial, and the city schedule in its own release starts construction in September 2027.
- Confirm the address is zoned to Blankner and Boone. The neighborhood is long and thin at its eastern end and a boundary is not a zone
- Compare against Delaney Park across Kaley Street: same schools, median just value $233,000 higher, and 700 more square feet of house
- Ride SunRail at rush hour once before you price it into the decision. It does not run at weekends
- There is no community development district here. Check the parcel record anyway, because that is where one would show
- Get a wind mitigation report. Seven in ten of these houses were standing in 1994, well ahead of the statewide wind code of 2002
- On the western blocks, expect memorial construction on Orange Avenue and hospital traffic behind it
How Wadeview Park got here
- 1920sThe first houses go up on the blocks nearest Orange Avenue. Six percent of the surviving single-family stock inside the boundary dates from this decade.
- 1950sThe bulk of the neighborhood is built. The median single-family parcel inside the boundary has an actual year built of 1955.
- 1980Florida's Chapter 190 creates community development districts. Ground already built out, which is all of this, never acquires one.
- 2014SunRail opens on 1 May, and the shared Amtrak station on the western edge becomes Orlando Health/Amtrak.
- 2025The state assessment roll counts 987 parcels inside the boundary, 712 of them single-family houses.
- 2026The city begins removing the Pulse building on South Orange Avenue on 18 March, immediately across the neighborhood's western boundary, clearing the site for the permanent memorial.
Wadeview Park, on South Summerlin Avenue
Wadeview Park is at 2177 South Summerlin Avenue, inside the neighborhood it names, and it carries a public pool, a neighborhood center, five picnic pavilions, a playground, and an exercise trail whose stations are built for people with disabilities. North across Kaley Street, Delaney Park has the marked ball fields and hard tennis courts. Greenwood Urban Wetlands, north-east, is the city stormwater park with paths and boardwalks around the ponds.
What the map does not show: the pool is the reason this park matters from June to September, when almost nothing else outdoors is usable in the middle of the day. The accessible exercise stations are unusual for a park this size and are worth a look before you assume the provision here is thin.
Elsewhere in Orlando, not Wadeview Park
20 places, with real drive times
Road-adjusted distance and drive time from the centre of the community to each destination, nearest first. Filter by category.
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Method: distances and drive times are computed from a representative point in the neighborhood, using straight-line distance multiplied by a road factor and a tiered speed model: honest ranges, not routed times. This neighborhood is long east to west, so an address near Bumby Avenue is well over a mile further from Orange Avenue than the table suggests.
Every gym within reach
The provision is municipal. Wadeview Park carries the pool, the neighborhood center and the exercise trail, Delaney Park north has the fields and courts, and the commercial gyms are on Orange Avenue in the SoDo strip rather than on any residential street here.
- A public pool and a neighborhood center at the same South Summerlin Avenue address
- An exercise trail whose stations are designed for people with disabilities
- Five picnic pavilions, a playground, restrooms and a parking lot
- Marked pitches and tennis courts are at Delaney Park, north across Kaley Street, and it has no lights
| Facility | What it is | Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Wadeview Park open | A public pool, a neighborhood center, five picnic pavilions, a playground and an exercise trail whose stations are designed for people with disabilities, all of it on South Summerlin Avenue inside the neighborhood. | 2–3 min |
| Delaney Park open | Ball fields and hard tennis courts north across Kaley Street, for anything that needs a marked pitch. No outdoor lights there, so it closes at dusk. | 3–5 min |
| Greenwood Urban Wetlands open | Paths and boardwalks around the city's stormwater ponds north-east, and the nearest thing to a nature walk without a drive out of town. | 6–9 min |
The free option is the trail and the shaded residential grid. In July and August that means before about nine in the morning, and the pool for everything else.
Zoned to two schools that are both inside the neighborhood
Orange County Public Schools assigns by home address across the whole county. On the 2026-27 zones this neighborhood goes to Blankner School for kindergarten through eighth grade and then to Boone High School, and both buildings stand inside neighborhood 91. The district also runs magnet and choice programs county-wide, among them the School of Arts & Entertainment at Cherokee north of Delaney Park.
| School | Board | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Blankner School | Orange County Public Schools | The zoned school on the district's 2026-27 attendance zones, and it stands inside the neighborhood boundary. It runs kindergarten through eighth grade, so there is no separate middle school assignment here. |
| Boone High School | Orange County Public Schools | The zoned high school on the 2026-27 zones, on Kaley Street and also inside the boundary. Having both assigned schools inside the neighborhood is rare in central Florida and is a large part of the case for buying here. |
| School of Arts & Entertainment at Cherokee | Orange County Public Schools | An arts and technology high school in the old Cherokee School building north of Delaney Park. It is a choice program, so a place is applied for rather than assigned by address. |
| Orange County's magnet and choice programs | Orange County Public Schools | Magnet and choice programs run county-wide alongside assignment, with an application window. A place in one is not a catchment right. |
| The district's own boundary lookup | Orange County Public Schools | This neighborhood is long and thin at its eastern end, so an address near Bumby Avenue is a mile and a half from one near Orange Avenue. Check the specific address in the district's lookup rather than assuming the boundary and the zone are the same line. |
The neighborhood boundary and the attendance zone are two different lines, and this neighborhood is unusually long, so an address at the Bumby Avenue end is not automatically in the same zone as one at the Orange Avenue end. Check the specific address in the district's own boundary lookup before you offer.
Month by month, what living here looks like
Not a highlights reel: the actual annual rhythm, including the dates residents have to remember.
- Highs around 22 °C and lows near 10: the coolest and driest stretch of the year
- The month the walk to Boone and Blankner is worth the money you paid for it
- Peak visitor season, and the SoDo strip on Orange Avenue is busy with it
- The driest month on average and the best for anything outdoors
- The exercise trail at Wadeview Park is usable at midday, which it will not be again until October
- A good month to ride SunRail once at rush hour before you decide it is your commute
- Warming into the high twenties, with humidity back before the month ends
- Spring break puts the metro's heaviest visitor traffic on the roads
- Oak pollen coats the cars on every street with a canopy over it
- Warm, still mostly dry, and the last month before the air changes
- Insurance renewals cluster ahead of hurricane season
- Seventy percent of the houses here were built before 1994, well ahead of the statewide wind code of 2002, so the wind mitigation report is the document that matters
- The rainy season usually begins in the second half of the month
- Afternoon thunderstorms become a daily fixture, and SunRail runs through them
- Central Florida is the most lightning-prone region in the United States
- Atlantic hurricane season runs 1 June to 30 November
- The pool at Wadeview Park stops being optional
- Wind rather than surge: at 97 feet and forty miles inland this is a roof question
- The hottest and wettest month, and life moves to early morning and after dark
- The park empties between about ten and six
- A 1,564 square foot mid-century house with original ducts is expensive to keep at 24 °C
- Peak humidity and the start of the serious part of hurricane season
- School starts, and Kaley Street carries the traffic for both assigned schools
- Tree work is cheaper booked now than after a storm has chosen for you
- Statistically the peak of Atlantic hurricane activity
- Binding restrictions mean you often cannot buy a new policy with a named storm in the basin
- Hurricane Charley crossing the city in 2004 is the local reference, not a coastal surge event
- The rains taper off and the humidity finally breaks
- Still hurricane season, and October storms have crossed the peninsula before
- The best month of the year for the park and for walking to Orange Avenue
- Hurricane season ends on 30 November and the dry season starts
- Comfortable enough to be outside all day again
- The tax bill arrives with 18.0878 mills on it and no district assessment underneath
- Warm days, cool evenings and almost no rain
- Downtown fills for the season and SunRail does not run at the weekend, so the car comes back out
- The pay-off for August
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