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NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO
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 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 77% 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 NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO
NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO is a primary school of big scale in VALRICO, Florida, operated by HILLSBOROUGH, educateing 906 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 50% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.
Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% White, 16% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 76.5%; NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO posts 56.8%, -19.7 points below that line.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,540, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is BLOOMINGDALE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. As a public charter, NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hillsborough County at a glance
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