Speaking to anyone considering moving to Lake Nona for Disney on this topic, if you are planning on your child attending Stanford or USC at this time and want to research what that would mean if you moved to Florida - from families living here in Florida, the kids here are going to go away for college - they are going to MIT, NYU, Wake Forest, Northwestern, Harvard, and other Ivy League schools in the Northeast. Lake Nona is already a great high school and Disney moving 2,000+ coworkers to the area is going to accelerate that high school to one of the top schools in the state. You will also want to consider Winter Park High School or Lake Highland Preparatory School. Graduates from these schools attend colleges all over the United States including Stanford and USC. Being at Lake Nona, you will be a 5 minute uber drive away from the airport with 2.5 hour direct flights going to New York, Chicago, and Boston every hour to be able to easily visit your child at school and vice-versa.
Closer to home, Florida, Florida State, and Miami are popular choices along with Rollins in Winter Park and the hometown University of Central Florida (UCF) as the No. 1 workforce supplier of graduates to the U.S. aerospace and defense industries, according to Aviation Week Network:
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Walt Disney World leaders George Kalogridis and Al Weiss are UCF Alumni:
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