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Alumni: what's one memory from RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
985
Elementary
DISTRICT 685 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM BEACH·NCES 120150008233
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT
2001 SUMMIT BLVD, WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33406 · (866) 543-7872 · Palm Beach County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL985 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 45% of Florida public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
956 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 98 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 118 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 131 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 111 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 116 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 88 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 113 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 13% smaller than its 8th grade class (113).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
40.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 44.0% |
% 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
43.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT's state test result (43.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT this school | 985 | 97.1% | 43.5% |
| KISSIMMEE CHARTER ACADEMY KISSIMMEE | 752 | 96.3% | 39.6% |
| PINE CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SANFORD | 714 | 93.4% | 50.7% |
| RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOLS AT PINES PEMBROKE PINES | 761 | 96.7% | 49.4% |
| OAK CREEK CHARTER SCHOOL OF BONITA SPRINGS BONITA SPRINGS | 685 | 98.5% | 26.9% |
| FELLSMERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FELLSMERE | 605 | 99.5% | 63.4% |
Matched among Florida elementary 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 RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Palm Beach County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.5% | #1,664 of 2,136 | #93 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,693 of 2,149 ▼ 22 | #101 of 129 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,779 of 2,149 ▲ 63 | #93 of 129 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 985 | #204 of 2,267 | #15 of 133 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #1,338 of 2,077 | #103 of 128 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.9% | #1,450 of 2,108 | #82 of 128 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 97.1% | #12 of 2,188 | #1 of 130 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.6% | #1,302 of 1,374 | #74 of 77 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
985
-123 (-11%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 18.2:1
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 | 985 | 59 | 16.7:1 | 97% (956) |
| 2023-24 | 1,106 | 62 | 17.8:1 | 74% (823) |
| 2022-23 | 1,141 | N/A | N/A | 78% (889) |
| 2020-21 | 1,108 | 61 | 18.2:1 | 75% (833) |
| 2017-18 | 1,001 | 46 | 21.8:1 | 8% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 982 | 69 | 14.2:1 | 1% (6) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT.
About RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT, located in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, is a large elementary school. A federal count lists 985 students at the school, in kindergarten through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Florida) has about 604 students.
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT reports to PALM BEACH, which has 233 schools and 191,505 students.
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT's enrollment is 68% Hispanic. Other groups include 23% Black and 7% White. By comparison, Palm Beach County residents are about 24% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 48%.
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT operates with 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 16.7:1. That ratio is under the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT reports 97% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The 45% average for public schools in Palm Beach County is 52 points lower.
The allk12 Grade for RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT is B-. Compared with Florida public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 45% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT's results are 10.9 points above predicted: 43.5% against 32.5%.
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT is located in Palm Beach County, where median household income is about $83,581, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 41%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County, which together enroll about 192,831 students.
The school nearest to RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT is MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.5 miles. Within five miles of RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT is 7th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large. This is a charter school, which is a tuition-free public school operating under a charter.
Enrollment was 1,108 in 2020-21 and 985 in 2024-25, a decrease of 123 students. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 18.2:1 to 16.7:1.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Palm Beach County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,533,806
Census ACS
Median income
$83,581
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
192,831 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PALM BEACH
- JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,262 students
- JUPITER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,122 students
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,881 students
- BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,819 students
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- PALM BEACH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,760 students
Other schools in WEST PALM BEACH
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- WILLIAM T. DWYER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,163 students
- FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,923 students
- PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,397 students
- ALEXANDER W DREYFOOS JUNIOR SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 1,352 students
- BAK MIDDLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTSMiddle · 1,246 students
Nearby schools
- MEADOW PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 813
- PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 508
- SLAM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL PALM BEACH0.8 mi · 309
- SPORTS LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (SLAM) MIDDLE SCHOOL PALM0.8 mi · 324
- SOMERSET ACADEMY LAKES0.8 mi · 400
- FOREST HILL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,923
Frequently asked questions
About RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMITHow large is RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT?
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT enrolls approximately 985 students in grades KG-08.
Is RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT an elementary, middle, or high school?
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT?
Approximately 16.7:1 students per teacher at RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT.
What is the racial breakdown of students at RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT?
At RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT, the student body is approximately 7% White, 68% Hispanic, 23% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT?
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT SUMMIT is overseen by PALM BEACH in Palm Beach County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.