ZENITH ACCELERATED ACADEMY

Located at 2218 E IRLO BRONSON MEMORIAL HWY, in KISSIMMEE, Florida, ZENITH ACCELERATED ACADEMY is a very small high school that works with 343 students (grades 8 through 12), operated by OSCEOLA. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so ZENITH ACCELERATED ACADEMY sits 67% below that benchmark.

Within OSCEOLA, which oversees 83 schools and 75,388 students, ZENITH ACCELERATED ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ZENITH ACCELERATED ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 16% Black, 9% White. By comparison, Osceola County as a whole is about 56% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting ZENITH ACCELERATED ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Osceola County runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Osceola County put median household earnings sit near $72,637, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Osceola County's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students), ZENITH ACCELERATED ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ZENITH ACCELERATED ACADEMY.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. ZENITH ACCELERATED ACADEMY's enrollment has shrank 36% since 2018, when it stood at 538 (now 343). Over the same period, the White share fell from 16% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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