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What advice would you give to incoming students at MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH?
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Enrollment
536
High
DISTRICT 1,318 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OSCEOLA·NCES 120147008767
MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH
3250 PLEASANT HILL ROAD, KISSIMMEE, FL 34746 · (407) 931-0325 · Osceola County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL536 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of Florida public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public high schools
Student : Teacher
28.2:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 40.0:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
418 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 187 | 35% |
| Grade 10 | 126 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 133 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 90 | 17% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
47.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
37.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.6% | 26.0% |
% 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
41.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH
MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH's state test result (41.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH this school | 536 | 78.0% | 41.7% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD) HOMESTEAD | 497 | 82.7% | 48.0% |
| SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL HOMESTEAD HOMESTEAD | 376 | 81.4% | 47.1% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL HOMESTEAD | 971 | 82.8% | 79.9% |
| FORT MEADE MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL FORT MEADE | 731 | 76.6% | 49.4% |
| HARDEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WAUCHULA | 958 | 76.8% | 50.4% |
Matched among Florida high 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 MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Osceola County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.7% | #462 of 555 | #13 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #324 of 549 ▲ 69 | #8 of 14 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #409 of 559 ▼ 23 | #12 of 15 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 536 | #483 of 830 | #13 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 28.2:1 | #529 of 575 | #16 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.4% | #436 of 594 | #11 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.0% | #17 of 630 | #1 of 16 |
Ranked against other public high 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
536
+397 (+286%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
28.2:1
was 19.9:1
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 | 536 | 19 | 28.2:1 | 78% (418) |
| 2023-24 | 530 | 13 | 40.8:1 | 74% (393) |
| 2022-23 | 438 | 13 | 33.7:1 | 76% (335) |
| 2020-21 | 139 | 7 | 19.9:1 | 78% (109) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH.
About MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH
Located in KISSIMMEE, Florida, MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH is a small high school. A total of 536 students attend the school, which covers grades 9 through 12. Against the 1,035-student average for high schools in Florida, enrollment here is 48% lower.
MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH is one school in an 83-school district, OSCEOLA, which enrolls 75,388 students.
At 71%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH combined. The school is also 15% Black, 9% White, and 2% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 56%. MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH has a diversity index of 46%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 28.2 students per teacher. For comparison, high schools in Florida average 23.5:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 78% of students. Compared with the 52% average for public schools in Osceola County, the school's rate is higher.
allk12 grades MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH a C+. The grade compares the school only with Florida public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
Test results at MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH are within a point of what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (41.7% actual, 42.1% predicted).
In the county around the school, Osceola County, median household income is about $72,637, roughly 30% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH is among the 88 public schools in Osceola County.
MATER BRIGHTON LAKES is the closest public school, less than a tenth of a mile away in a straight line. MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH ranks 6th on proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Rural: Fringe. It is a charter school, open to the public and funded by taxpayers.
MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH enrolled 139 in 2020-21 and 536 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. The school's ratio rose from 19.9:1 to 28.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Osceola County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
427,415
Census ACS
Median income
$72,637
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
88
74,164 students
Quick facts
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- ST. CLOUD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,596 students
- POINCIANA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,573 students
- OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,345 students
Other schools in KISSIMMEE
- TOHOPEKALIGA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,929 students
- POINCIANA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,573 students
- OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,345 students
- GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,882 students
- WESTSIDE K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 1,496 students
- RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT TAPESTRYElementary · 1,419 students
Nearby schools
- MATER BRIGHTON LAKES0.0 mi · 1,267
- BELLALAGO CHARTER ACADEMY1.0 mi · 1,108
- LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 1,362
- DEERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.0 mi · 422
- HORIZON MIDDLE SCHOOL3.3 mi · 1,008
- REEDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 431
Frequently asked questions
About MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGHHow large is MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH?
MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH enrolls approximately 536 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH serve?
MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH is approximately 28.2:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH?
Student demographics at MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH are roughly 9% White, 71% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH public or private?
MATER BRIGHTON LAKES ACADEMY PREPARATORY HIGH is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by OSCEOLA.
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