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CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH
Set in BELLE ISLE, Florida, CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH is an intimate four-year high school, run under ORANGE. It hosts 615 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.
CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH is one of 272 schools operated by ORANGE, a district that teaches 207,778 students overall.
In terms of who attends, CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH records that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 40% White, 10% Black, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial.
On the resource side, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.5%, the actual is 63.8%, a residual of +0.3 points.
In the area at large, Orange County reports that median household earnings sit near $79,719, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: CORNERSTONE ACADEMY CHARTER, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 48.3%.
CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH operates from a residential location. As a public charter, CORNERSTONE CHARTER ACADEMY HIGH runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 36%: 453 students in 2018 compared to 615 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 46% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.
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Orange County at a glance
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