IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in WEST MELBOURNE, Florida, IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE caters to 665 students from grades K through 7, one of the schools within BREVARD.

BREVARD comprises 109 schools with combined enrollment of 73,587 students; IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE is among them.

On the student-mix side, IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE reports that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 20% Black, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Brevard County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Brevard County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.1%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of +6.7 points.

In the broader community, census data for Brevard County shows the typical household earns roughly $78,476 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Brevard County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students), of which IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE is one.

RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 50.8%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. IMAGINE SCHOOLS AT WEST MELBOURNE's enrollment has climbed 63% since 2018, when it stood at 408 (now 665). Black enrollment moved from 26% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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