This includes ninth grade centers and Robert Hungerford Preparatory School. This includes students at four exceptional education schools and at the Alternative Centers, located at 24 separate sites. These figures represent enrollment for one term and do not include all students served during one year. The Orange County public school system operates the largest public transportation system in Central Florida. OCPS school buses travel more than 17 million miles annually, or 95,800 miles on an average school day.
State law requires that any student living beyond two miles be provided transportation to school.
The district has 1,819 bus routes. An additional 15 percent indicated they were enrolling in a technical education center. OCPS has more than 38,000 microcomputers in the schools, many of which are connected to a wide area network, the district's main computing center and the Internet. Students in Orange County schools come from 223 countries and speak 143 different languages and dialects. The school board consists of seven members who represent individual districts but are elected countywide.