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PINECREST ACADEMY FOUR CORNERS
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 58 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 have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
About PINECREST ACADEMY FOUR CORNERS
PINECREST ACADEMY FOUR CORNERS is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in MIAMI, Florida, run under LAKE, instructing 583 students in grades K through 8.
Within LAKE, which oversees 60 schools and 47,997 students, PINECREST ACADEMY FOUR CORNERS is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, PINECREST ACADEMY FOUR CORNERS reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%; the rest comes out to 20% White, 8% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at PINECREST ACADEMY FOUR CORNERS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lake County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, PINECREST ACADEMY FOUR CORNERS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.0%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Lake County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,161 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Lake County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 47,997 students), of which PINECREST ACADEMY FOUR CORNERS is one.
Nearest neighbor: LAKE POINTE ACADEMY, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PINECREST ACADEMY FOUR CORNERS at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.3%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site. PINECREST ACADEMY FOUR CORNERS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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