PINECREST LAKES MIDDLE/HIGH ACADEMY
CLERMONT · FL · LAKE · Public charter · K-12 combined
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LEGACY HIGH CHARTER → INNOVATION MONTESSORI OCOEE → WORKFORCE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY CHARTER → SHEELER HIGH CHARTER → SUNSHINE HIGH SCHOOL-GREATER ORLANDO CAMPUS → ACCELERATION WEST → ESE TRANSITION → POSITIVE PATHWAYS TRANSITION CENTER →📋 At a glance
- 📚 1 AP courses offered — Limited
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 47% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How PINECREST LAKES MIDDLE/HIGH ACADEMY compares for families
What families should know about PINECREST LAKES MIDDLE/HIGH ACADEMY.
- ▸ LocallyFL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: LEGACY HIGH CHARTER, INNOVATION MONTESSORI OCOEE, WORKFORCE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY CHARTER and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 29% of US high schools
✅ Gifted/talented program
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 47% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
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Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +15.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 262 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $11,958 per student in district revenue, the 285 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $3,408,030/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEGACY HIGH CHARTER OCOEE |
Public · charter | 9.4 | 215 | +4.4% |
| INNOVATION MONTESSORI OCOEE OCOEE |
Public · charter | 10.4 | 185 | -73.8% |
| WORKFORCE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY CHARTER ORLANDO |
Public · charter | 18.7 | 279 | +8.6% |
| SHEELER HIGH CHARTER APOPKA |
Public · charter | 15.6 | 333 | +14.4% |
| SUNSHINE HIGH SCHOOL-GREATER ORLANDO CAMPUS ORLANDO |
Public · charter | 14.3 | 382 | -4.5% |
| ACCELERATION WEST ORLANDO |
Public | 13.1 | 165 | +20.4% |
| ESE TRANSITION WINTER GARDEN |
Public | 8.9 | 131 | +1.6% |
| POSITIVE PATHWAYS TRANSITION CENTER ORLANDO |
Public | 17.5 | 194 | +90.2% |