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MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD
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 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 79% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD
MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD operates as an average-sized elementary-level community in MIAMI, Florida, run under OSCEOLA. Current enrollment sits at 612 students spanning grades K through 8.
OSCEOLA comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 75,388 students; MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school reports 18% White, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD has 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 612.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 3% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Osceola County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 79.5%; this one comes in at 53.1%, -26.3 points off the demographic line.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Osceola County put median household income runs about $72,637, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Osceola County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students), MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is CREATIVE INSPIRATION JOURNEY SCHOOL OF ST CLOUD, roughly 1.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 54.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area. MATER ACADEMY AT ST CLOUD is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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Osceola County at a glance
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