The schools for Wedgefield would be East Lake Elementary or Columbia Elementary/Corner lake Middle/East River High. My kids went to all of these schools and I had very few negative experiences with them. Wedgefield is right on the Beachline which runs to Orlando west (lets off just blocks from Sea World) and east to Cocoa. So you can be to either places within usually 25 minutes from there. It was actually called Rocket City I believe at one time and was designed to be attractive to those people who worked on the space coast. I could take pictures to send you of wedfgefield if you wanted to see what it looks like. It is really beautiful and a fairly large community (there are housing developments and then there are places which are not part of the housing developments on acreage). There are some really gorgeous homes out there though. I wish I could offer more on the Merritt island area but I just do not go there often enough to say much about it. I think any town you look at though will have pluses and minuses so try not to cross anything off the list right away because you might fall in love with one of them after actually seeing it. My daughter lives in Titusville and we spent a lot of time there with our kids when they were growing up. She works in Port St. John and she seems to like it for the most part. She just misses being closer to us. I can really only tell you about the stuff we do when we visit these places which we go shopping in Titusville more often then we do Orlando (because I really and truly hate going west to Orlando LOL). We go to the parks there alot. We like nature parks/hiking/fishing type activities. If you like/prefer living closer to city life though Merritt Island would definitely be better for you I think. Keep in mind Merritt Island is a barrier island so anytime there is a tropical storm/hurricane threat they evacuate all of the barrier islands. That for me would be enough to want to live further inland then there. That may or may not effect your decision as that does not happen every single year.
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