General Info

Diverse Population:

Kaley Elementary has a diverse population that, as of the 2006-2007 school year, includes approximately:

Support Programs for Students:

The children from Great Oaks Village, a Department of Children and Families facility for dependent children, also attend Kaley. Other support programs for students include:

• Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program
• Specific Learning Disability Services
• Speech and Language Services
• PreK - 5th Grade Varying Exceptionalities Program
• Gifted students served at a nearby elementary school
• District-Wide Auditory-Oral Hearing Impaired Program for PreK-5th Grade.
  Hearing impaired students with total communication needs are served at another OCPS elementary school.
• Kaley is the location for the district's Audiology Department.
• Extended Day Enrichment program available to all K-5 students.

Exceptional Education

A variety of exceptional education programs are at Kaley. The largest is the Hearing Impaired Program. This Auditory/Oral program serves students from PRE K through 5.

• SLD
• EMH
• ESOL
• PRE-K
• PRE-K VE
• HEARING IMPAIRED
• SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
• HEARING IMPAIRED SPEECH AND LANGUAGE

Hearing Impaired

The Hearing Impaired Program at Kaley serves deaf & hard of hearing students in Orange or Lake County, Florida, USA. We use the auditory/oral method.....we train the children to use appropriate amplification (hearing aids or cochlear implant) to maximize their ability to listen and comprehend. Our goal is for these students to mainstream in academic and social activities with their hearing peers. Our program serves students from 3 to 11 years of age. We have several options available to them. There are currently 7 self-contained classrooms taught by certified teachers of the Hearing Impaired. These include 2 Pre-K classrooms for our youngest students. The preschool emphasis is on auditory training and language experiences for the children to increase their vocabulary base. The academic classes, K-Grade 5, work to provide the necessary language and comprehension for skills needed to learn in the areas of Language, Reading, Math, Science, and Social Studies. Other options include partial mainstreaming into the regular classroom with supplemental help from a self-contained classroom teacher, or full-time mainstreaming in a regular ed. classroom with 1-5 hours a week working with a resource teacher of the Hearing Impaired.

Historical Info

John Kaley of Robinson, Illinois, who had come to Orlando in 1909 and built Kaley Cottage in 1911, purchased ten acres on Lake Lancaster from Senator Buxton and ten acres on the south side of Lake Copeland for development.

Source: Orlando, a Centennial History by Eve Bacon. Published by Mickler House in Chuluota, Florida 32766

Kaley Elementary School was constructed of Depression bricks in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers. The outer beauty of the school lies in its old English style of architecture. In 1995 our school was proclaimed a historical site by the Orlando Preservation Board & the City of Orlando. Our inner beauty is created by a unique population of students in the regular Pre-K through 5th grade program, Pre-K through grade 5 Auditory-Oral Hearing Impaired Program, the Educable Mentally Handicapped Program, the PreK Inclusion Program, and the PreK Varying Exceptionalities Program. Kaley is also the location for the district’s Audiology Department.