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What do students at BERKLEY ACCELERATED actually talk about outside of class?
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Enrollment
622
Middle
DISTRICT 741 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159004188
BERKLEY ACCELERATED
5316 BERKLEY RD, AUBURNDALE, FL 33823 · (863) 984-2400 · Polk County
GRADES 06–10MIDDLE21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL622 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.9:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
191 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 157 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 155 | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 142 | 23% |
| Grade 9 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 10 | 73 | 12% |
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
BERKLEY ACCELERATED→POLK STATE LAKELAND GATEWAY TO COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHO
Based on grade levels within POLK. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
74.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
78.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.4% | 78.6% |
| 2023-24 | 71.3% | 74.3% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BERKLEY ACCELERATED
BERKLEY ACCELERATED's state test result (70.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERKLEY ACCELERATED this school | 622 | 30.7% | 70.3% |
| R. DAN NOLAN MIDDLE SCHOOL BRADENTON | 787 | 28.7% | 71.6% |
| FERNANDINA BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOL FERNANDINA BEACH | 721 | 35.2% | 75.7% |
| NORTH BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL PANAMA CITY | 526 | 29.8% | 78.0% |
| HERBERT C. HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL INDIALANTIC | 473 | 30.9% | 65.9% |
| NORTH NAPLES MIDDLE SCHOOL NAPLES | 909 | 30.0% | 78.9% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BERKLEY ACCELERATED ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Polk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.3% | #88 of 560 | #1 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.6% | #86 of 560 ▲ 10 | #1 of 24 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.4% | #60 of 560 ▼ 8 | #1 of 24 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 622 | #426 of 584 | #20 of 26 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #348 of 547 | #7 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.4% | #395 of 553 | #24 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.7% | #472 of 565 | #25 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +30.9% | #18 of 137 | #1 of 9 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
622
+150 (+32%) vs 2020
+48% since 2010-11, when it was 419
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 20.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 622 | 31 | 20.1:1 | 31% (191) |
| 2023-24 | 627 | 29 | 21.6:1 | 33% (209) |
| 2022-23 | 623 | 31 | 20.1:1 | 36% (225) |
| 2020-21 | 472 | 23 | 20.5:1 | 35% (166) |
| 2017-18 | 475 | 36 | 13.2:1 | 33% (155) |
| 2015-16 | 463 | 29 | 16.0:1 | 32% (149) |
| 2010-11 | 419 | 21 | 19.9:1 | 38% (159) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BERKLEY ACCELERATED.
About BERKLEY ACCELERATED
Located in AUBURNDALE, Florida, BERKLEY ACCELERATED is a small middle school. The school covers grades 6 through 10 and reported 622 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 22% below the 794-student average for middle schools in Florida.
BERKLEY ACCELERATED falls under POLK, which has 163 schools enrolling 116,552 students.
The share of White students at BERKLEY ACCELERATED is 68%, a majority. It is also 23% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 2% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Polk County is roughly 56% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 48%.
BERKLEY ACCELERATED has a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.1:1, with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 31% at BERKLEY ACCELERATED. The average for public schools in Polk County is 65%.
BERKLEY ACCELERATED is 4.5 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (70.3% versus 65.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
The school's county is Polk County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $65,978 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 24% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Public schools in Polk County number 172, with about 117,004 students.
Measured in a straight line, POLK PRE-COLLEGIATE ACADEMY is less than a tenth of a mile from BERKLEY ACCELERATED. The five-mile area around BERKLEY ACCELERATED holds 4 other public schools. BERKLEY ACCELERATED comes in 2nd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, BERKLEY ACCELERATED is Suburb: Large. BERKLEY ACCELERATED is run as a public charter school.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 150 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
790,694
Census ACS
Median income
$65,978
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
172
117,004 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POLK
- HAINES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,105 students
- DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,731 students
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,648 students
- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,276 students
Other schools in AUBURNDALE
- AUBURNDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,770 students
- JERE L. STAMBAUGH MIDDLEMiddle · 1,013 students
- LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 915 students
- WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 887 students
- BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 696 students
- CLARENCE BOSWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 600 students
Nearby schools
- POLK PRE-COLLEGIATE ACADEMY0.0 mi · 39
- BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 696
- POLK CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 545
- LENA VISTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.0 mi · 915
- AUBURNDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL5.3 mi · 1,770
- JERE L. STAMBAUGH MIDDLE5.3 mi · 1,013
Frequently asked questions
About BERKLEY ACCELERATEDWhat is the total enrollment at BERKLEY ACCELERATED?
BERKLEY ACCELERATED enrolls approximately 622 students in grades 06-10.
What age range does BERKLEY ACCELERATED serve?
BERKLEY ACCELERATED serves students from grade 06 through grade 10.
How many students per teacher at BERKLEY ACCELERATED?
Approximately 20.1:1 students per teacher at BERKLEY ACCELERATED.
How diverse is BERKLEY ACCELERATED?
BERKLEY ACCELERATED reports a student body of 68% White, 23% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is BERKLEY ACCELERATED in?
BERKLEY ACCELERATED is part of POLK.
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