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RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON
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 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON
RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON operates as a mid-sized elementary school in WELLINGTON, Florida, run under PALM BEACH. Current enrollment sits at 682 students spanning grades K through 8.
PALM BEACH comprises 233 schools with combined enrollment of 191,505 students; RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON is among them.
On the student-mix side, RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 40% Black, 14% White, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Palm Beach County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of +2.1 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Palm Beach County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).
Nearest neighbor: EMERALD COVE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 70.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area. As a public charter, RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Trend over the last 7 years. RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT WELLINGTON's enrollment has expanded 20% since 2018, when it stood at 568 (now 682). Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 29% to 40%. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.
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