Thornton Park is a 76-acre city neighborhood east of Lake Eola in ZIP 32801, with 341 home addresses, zoned for Lake Como School and Edgewater High.

Last checked Oct. 9, 2026. Sources: the City of Orlando’s neighborhood boundaries, address points and Main Street districts open data, Orange County Public Schools’ Find My School zones for 2026-27, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades, Zillow Research, LYNX, SunRail and OpenStreetMap.

Thornton Park is one of the smallest neighborhoods on the City of Orlando’s map: about 76 acres east of Lake Eola, between Summerlin Avenue and Mills Avenue, from about South Street north to Robinson Street. The city’s address data lists 341 residential addresses: 229 single-family homes, 84 multifamily buildings, 14 apartment buildings and 14 condominium addresses. Its busiest residential streets are Washington Street, Hyer Avenue, Mills Avenue, Central Boulevard, Hill Avenue and Pine Street.

What this means for you

  • High school: Edgewater High, graded B by Florida for 2026 (A in 2025).
  • Home value: $341,859 in ZIP 32801 in August 2026, according to the Zillow Home Value Index.
  • Nearest I-4 exit: Exit 84A/84B, Colonial Drive, about 1.9 miles by road.

Part of our Orlando neighborhoods guide.

Where it is

The neighborhood borders Lake Eola Heights to the northwest, Colonialtown South to the northeast and Lawsona/Fern Creek to the east on the city’s map. The blocks to the west, between it and the lake, belong to the city’s South Eola neighborhood.

One point worth knowing: the city’s Thornton Park District Main Street business district, the shops and restaurants that carry the name, is mapped mostly in South Eola. About 79% of that district’s area is in South Eola and about 11% in the Thornton Park neighborhood itself, the city’s Main Street layer shows.

ZIP code: 32801 for every residential address.

Schools

Every residential address in the neighborhood falls in these zones in Orange County Public Schools’ 2026-27 zone layer:

Level Zoned school Florida grade, 2026
Elementary and middle (K-8) Lake Como School, 2450 E. Gore St. B (A in 2025)
High Edgewater High, 3100 Edgewater Drive B (A in 2025)

Grades are from the Florida Department of Education; each school name links to its state report card. Howard Middle School, listed as a magnet school in OCPS’s school sites data, is inside the neighborhood, but it is not the zoned school for these homes. Check any address with OCPS’s Find My School tool. More in our schools guide.

Home values

The typical home value in ZIP 32801 was $341,859 in August 2026, down 3.6% from $354,700 in August 2025, according to the Zillow Home Value Index. The index is a modeled typical value for the middle third of homes, single-family homes and condos together, not a sale price. It covers the whole ZIP code, including the downtown towers, so it says little about Thornton Park’s single-family streets on their own. Zillow’s figure for the city of Orlando was $371,120, down 1.4% on the year. More in our home prices guide.

Parks and trails

The city’s parks data shows no park inside the neighborhood’s boundary. Lake Eola Park, 195 N. Rosalind Ave., is about a tenth of a mile west at its nearest point, with its loop path around the lake. More in our parks and trails guide.

Getting around

  • Interstate: I-4 Exit 84A/84B, Colonial Drive, about 1.9 miles by road from the middle of the neighborhood.
  • City Hall (400 S. Orange Ave.): about 0.9 miles.
  • Airport: about 12.2 miles by road to Orlando International Airport.
  • These are distances measured on the OpenStreetMap road network with the OSRM routing engine, not drive times.
  • SunRail: Church Street station is about 0.9 miles away and LYNX Central about 1 mile, in a straight line.
  • Bus: LYNX’s current schedule data lists two stops inside the neighborhood, served by Links 51, 104 and 125. Times are on LYNX’s route pages.

More in our getting around guide.

Groceries and everyday stores

OpenStreetMap lists no supermarket or pharmacy inside the neighborhood. The nearest it maps is the Publix at 400 E. Central Blvd., with a pharmacy, about 0.4 miles west in a straight line.

How we drew this area

This page uses the Thornton Park polygon in the City of Orlando’s neighborhood layer, which OpenStreetMap also names as a neighborhood. Address counts, ZIP codes and school zones come from the city’s issued residential address points matched to Orange County Public Schools’ 2026-27 zone layer on Oct. 9, 2026. An apartment building counts as one address. Store and road data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Thornton Park in Orlando?

East of Lake Eola and downtown, between Summerlin Avenue and Mills Avenue, from about South Street north to Robinson Street, on the city’s neighborhood map. Lake Eola Park is about a tenth of a mile west.

What ZIP code is Thornton Park?

  1. Zillow put the typical home value in that ZIP code at $341,859 in August 2026, down 3.6% on the year.

What schools serve Thornton Park?

Lake Como School, a K-8 school, and Edgewater High School, in Orange County Public Schools’ 2026-27 zone layer. Florida graded both B for 2026.

Is Thornton Park a good place to live?

Here are the facts. Thornton Park is a 76-acre neighborhood with 341 residential addresses in the city’s data, two-thirds of them single-family homes, about a tenth of a mile from Lake Eola Park and under a mile from City Hall. It is zoned for Lake Como School and Edgewater High, both graded B in 2026.