Celebration K-8: The Town’s School, Explained for Families
Celebration K-8 School sits at 510 Campus Street and serves the town from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. This guide sets out what the School District of Osceola County and the school itself publish about its history, its leadership and how families use it.
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For most Celebration families, the school run starts and ends at one address. Celebration K-8 School, at 510 Campus Street, is the town school for the years from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, and it has been part of Celebration since the town itself began. This guide explains the school as a community institution: where it sits, what the School District of Osceola County publishes about it, and where families find the information they plan around. District decisions, including board actions, are covered separately in the Citizen’s Schools coverage.
The basics, as the district publishes them
The school’s official district page gives its address as 510 Campus Street, Kissimmee, FL 34747, and its telephone number as 407-566-2300. The district’s published school directory lists the school as serving PreK to 8, with office hours of 8.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. The principal named on the school’s own homepage is Gary Weeden, whose principal’s message opens the site, and the district directory also lists Gary Weeden as principal. Families will see the school referred to in district material both as Celebration K-8 School and as Celebration School K-8; they are the same school.
The school’s mascot identity, as its own channels present it, is the Pride. The school signs off its About Us page with the words GO PRIDE, its social accounts use the Celebration Pride name, and its homepage carries messages from families and staff written in that language. That is the name parents will hear at assemblies and see on school communications.
A school that opened with the town
The history on the school’s official About Us page is short and specific. Celebration School opened in 1996 as a K-12 school. Its first location was the Town Hall building at 851 Celebration Avenue. In 1997, the current campus opened, and there have been two building additions since. When Celebration High School opened in 2003, Celebration School became a K-8 school. The two schools have different attendance zones, a point the district page states plainly and one that matters when families check which school an address feeds into.
The same page records that in 2010 a renovation project was initiated to equalise classroom space and add technology tools for instruction. Read together, the dates explain the shape of the Campus Street site: a campus that opened a year after the school itself, grew by addition as the town grew, and was then reshaped once the older pupils moved to the new high school on Celebration Boulevard.
What the record says about results
The school’s district page states that Celebration School is ranked number 2 of all traditional K-8 and middle schools in the State of Florida based on overall scores calculated for school grades. The same page states that the school has been awarded an A ranking by the Department of Education for nearly two decades, and that the Florida Department of Education has also recognised Celebration K-8 as a 5-Star School, a recognition the page explains is given for collaboration with community stakeholders and for welcoming volunteers into the school.
Those are the district’s own published characterisations, and families who want the underlying state figures should go to the source: the Florida Department of Education publishes school grades through its accountability pages at fldoe.org. This guide does not attach a letter grade to a specific recent year, because the department’s current grades spreadsheet could not be read in full for this piece; the EIC notes record that gap. What can be said on the record is what the school itself publishes, above.
How families actually use the school
The practical life of the school runs through the district’s systems. The school homepage carries dated news items for parents, a full calendar, and the principal’s message for the quarter; the current message notes that the second quarter is under way and that pupils will take the PM2 assessment in December, with each pupil working towards an individual goal. The district lists Celebration K8 among the locations for its Before the Bell programme, which provides care for middle school pupils before the start of the school day, and district material is clear that registration for that programme is yearly.
Parents are part of the school’s published structure, not an extra. The About Us page describes a PTA that provides leadership in multiple activities and a School Advisory Committee, known as SAC, that helps guide school improvement. Parents are encouraged to join both, and the first meetings are usually in September. Business partners are also named as part of the school’s work, and the page invites local businesses that would like to partner with the school to make contact.
The district’s school choice site lists Celebration School K-8 with a Dual Language innovative option, and describes the school as committed to creating a compassionate community of learning, exploring and creating, with a rigorous, student-centred curriculum intended to prepare pupils for college and careers. Families considering the choice process should read the current choice pages in full, because capacity and programme availability govern what is on offer in any given year.
Finding out more, and checking the zone
Two checks matter for any family moving within or into Celebration. First, attendance zones: the district states that Celebration K-8 and Celebration High School have different attendance zones, so a Celebration address should always be checked against the district’s current zoning information rather than assumed. Second, dates: enrolment, calendar and programme dates sit on the district site at osceolaschools.net and on the school site, and those pages, not this guide, are the ones to plan around.
For the wider Celebration picture, the Citizen’s Celebration portal sets the school in the context of the town it serves.
More from this desk: the Celebration hub carries the latest local coverage, the Celebration News archive holds the full run, and companion explainers include Celebration High School, explained, Celebration’s villages, explained and who does what in Celebration: utilities and county services.
Sources & notes: Celebration K-8 School official pages on osceolaschools.net (school homepage and About Us page, including address, telephone, principal’s message and school history); School District of Osceola County published school directory (grades PreK-8, principal, office hours; directory updated May 19, 2025); the district’s Before the Bell page listing Celebration K8; the district school choice site entry for Celebration School K-8; Florida Department of Education school grades page at fldoe.org, read November 15, 2026. The department’s current school grades spreadsheet could not be extracted for this piece, so no grade is attached to a specific recent year in the text above.
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