The top reported proficiency rate is 55% in Math. The lowest is 46% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Madison Creative Arts Academy Inc
Madison Creative Arts Academy is a charter school in Madison, Florida, serving children from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. It sits on NE Rocky Ford Road, operating as a public charter within the Madison County school district. For a family weighing it against the district's traditional public schools, the most useful frame is this: it is a choice option in a small rural county where the charter and the district's consolidated K-8 campus are both drawing from the same modest-sized pool of families.
Madison itself is a small North Florida county seat, a quiet town with a compact historic downtown of brick streets, a central park, antique shops, and restaurants, ringed by agricultural land with pastures, livestock, and timber. North Florida College sits in town and is a meaningful employer alongside the county hospital and local government. Growth here is slow and steady rather than rapid; housing stock is older and largely rural in character, and home values sit well below both state and national benchmarks, making Madison one of the more affordable housing markets in Florida. Rental data was not available in what was provided.
Academically, the picture is mixed and worth examining grade by grade. In third grade, math proficiency on the Florida FAST assessment is strong, reaching well above what families might expect from a small rural charter. ELA proficiency in third grade is also solid, with roughly seven in ten students scoring proficient. That third-grade performance is a genuine strength. The pattern shifts in the upper elementary grades. Fourth and fifth grade math and ELA results drop to around half or fewer of students reaching proficiency, and fifth-grade science proficiency is also below the midpoint. By middle school, math results in grades six through eight are uneven: sixth and seventh grade perform better than fifth, but eighth-grade math falls back to roughly the same range as fifth. ELA in the middle grades sits in the mid-to-upper half range, which is more consistent. Eighth-grade science proficiency is meaningfully higher than fifth-grade science. The third-grade results suggest the early grades may be a relative strength; the pattern in fourth through fifth grade is something a parent would want to ask the school about directly, including what support structures are in place during those transition years.
Trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether results have been improving, declining, or holding steady. No multi-year comparison is possible from what was provided.
The school's student body is predominantly white, with Black and Hispanic students each representing smaller shares and a modest multiracial population. Free and reduced-price lunch data was not reported, so the economic composition of the student body is not something the data allows a characterization of. Chronic absenteeism and special education rates were also not available.
Because Madison County has only one district in the county comparison set, the comparison framework did not produce a positioning result. The graduation rate does not apply here since the school ends at eighth grade.
On the district side, the publicly reported consolidation of Greenville, Lee, and Pinetta elementary schools into Madison County Central School, effective for the 2025-26 school year, is worth knowing as context. That shift affected the traditional public school landscape in the county and appears permanent, with the closed properties already being listed for sale. Madison Creative Arts Academy, as a charter, was not directly part of that consolidation, but the change shapes the overall choice environment families in this county are navigating.
Program and curriculum details beyond the school's name and charter identity were not available in the data provided, so the specific arts integration model or enrichment structure would need to be explored directly with the school. For a family drawn to a smaller setting with an arts focus in a rural North Florida community, this school warrants a direct conversation, with particular attention to what happens academically in the fourth-through-fifth-grade stretch and how the school supports students through that span.
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