LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY

Set in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY is a heavily attended unified-grade school, run under MANATEE. It teaches 1,369 students across grades K through 12. That puts it 288% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 353 students.

Across the 80 schools in MANATEE (54,215 students total), LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY lists that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 72%.

On the resource side, On paper, LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY has 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Manatee County's rate of about 51%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.1%, the actual is 70.2%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Manatee County shows median household income runs about $78,457, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Manatee County runs 86 public schools (combined enrollment of about 54,208 students), of which LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is BRADEN RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 69.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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