Imagine Schools at West Melbourne, West Melbourne FL

Original Research by School Decision on Imagine Schools at West Melbourne

Imagine Schools at West Melbourne is a charter school in West Melbourne, Florida, serving children from kindergarten through sixth grade. As a publicly funded charter, it draws students by choice rather than by attendance zone, which shapes its enrollment in ways that differ from a traditional neighborhood school.

The school's population is meaningfully diverse. White students make up the largest share, with Black and Hispanic students each representing substantial portions of the student body, and smaller numbers of Asian, multiracial, and other students enrolled as well. Roughly half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places economic need at the center of the school's daily reality. Data on students with IEPs or English learner designations was not available in what we reviewed.

On the Florida FAST assessment, the picture varies by grade and subject. Third-grade math stands out as a genuine strength, with a large majority of students reaching proficiency. ELA in third grade is solid as well, though somewhat lower. In fourth and fifth grade, math proficiency drops noticeably, sitting just above or right at half, before rebounding in sixth grade. ELA tracks more steadily across grades four through six, in the mid-to-upper sixties range. The single science assessment, taken in fifth grade, shows roughly two-thirds of students proficient. A seventh-grade result also appears in the data; because the school is officially listed as serving through sixth grade, a parent may want to ask the school directly about how that grade is structured. Trend data across years was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, declining, or holding steady.

The comparison framework found too few peer entities in Brevard County to position the school against local neighbors in any reliable way, so no county-level comparison is offered here.

The housing market around the school sits close to Florida's statewide median for home values, and rents are running modestly below what a typical renter income would suggest is affordable, though both home values and rents have softened slightly over the past year. For families weighing a move into the area alongside a school choice decision, the local market is neither unusually expensive nor unusually cheap relative to the state as a whole.

Specific information about West Melbourne as a community, including its employment base, civic character, and any notable growth or development patterns, was not returned in research before the search budget ran out, so those details are left out rather than guessed at.

No program information was available for this school, so it is not possible to say whether enrichment, arts, or intervention supports are offered beyond what the grade structure implies. Parents interested in what the school does for students reading below grade level, or in any specialty programs, would want to ask the school directly. The district brief for Brevard, which operates this charter's authorizing framework, similarly returned no confirmed recent changes worth reporting.

This is a mid-sized elementary and early middle school by charter standards, situated in a community where roughly half the families face some economic pressure. The academic results suggest real strength at the entry grades in math and more mixed ground in the upper elementary years, a pattern a parent would reasonably want to probe further with the school.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 376%

School 76% · District 59% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 459%

School 59% · District 60% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 551%

School 51% · District 57% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 659%

School 59% · District 72% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 788%

School 88% · District 64% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 368%

School 68% · District 58% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 58% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 567%

School 67% · District 60% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 666%

School 66% · District 70% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 772%

School 72% · District 62% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Science

Grade 564%

School 64% · District 60% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

This schoolBREVARD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income70%Higher-income65%5 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income54%Higher-income49%6 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income65%Higher-income69%3 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income62%Higher-income71%9 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income66%Higher-income86%20 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income72%Higher-income81%9 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income54%Higher-income67%13 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income48%Higher-income54%7 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income47%Higher-income75%28 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income86%Higher-income93%7 pp gap