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PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL
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 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 WESLEY CHAPEL
Set in WESLEY CHAPEL, Florida, PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL is a high-enrollment primary school, one of the schools within PASCO. It caters to 1,312 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 117% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.
Across the 105 schools in PASCO (86,873 students total), PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 26% White, 18% Asian, 12% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Pasco County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL records 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.4%, the actual is 71.2%, a residual of +4.8 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Pasco County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $70,492 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Pasco County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students), of which PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL is one.
PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 52.1%.
PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL operates from a commuter-belt location. PINECREST ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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