Hope Charter, Ocoee FL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Hope Charter

Hope Charter sits on East Crown Point Road in Ocoee, a West Orange County city about ten miles west-northwest of downtown Orlando. It serves kindergarten through eighth grade as a public charter school, offering families in a fast-growing suburban community an alternative to the zoned district options within Orange County Public Schools.

The academic picture here is genuinely strong. Florida's FAST assessments show that across the tested grades, the school posts proficiency rates that are well above the midpoint among districts in Orange County on an overall proficiency index. Third-grade math and sixth-grade ELA results stand out as particularly high, with nearly all students testing proficient. ELA results in the middle grades hold up well through seventh grade, and fifth-grade science is also solid. The places where the numbers come back down slightly are fifth and seventh-grade math, eighth-grade ELA, and eighth-grade science, where rates are still healthy but modestly lower than the school's own upper-elementary peak. A parent who wants a fuller picture of how those eighth-grade results compare to where those same students were in earlier grades would be worth asking the school about directly, since multi-year trend data was not available in what was provided.

Enrollment is modest for a K-8 school, with classes distributed fairly evenly across grades and a slight concentration in the middle grades. The student body is predominantly white, with Hispanic students making up the second-largest group, followed by Black students, students of two or more races, and Asian students. Economic context data such as free-and-reduced-price lunch rates, IEP rates, and English learner rates were not reported in the data available, so a full picture of the support needs the school is serving is not available here. Parents with students who need specific services would want to ask those questions directly.

Athletics programming is publicly reported as including baseball, basketball for both boys and girls, cheerleading, cross country, football, soccer, softball, and volleyball. No additional program offerings such as arts, dual enrollment, or extended learning were listed in the data provided, so those are gaps worth exploring on the school's own website.

On the housing side, the zip code around the school carries home values above both the Florida state median and the national median, and values have edged down slightly year over year. Rents have moved slightly upward. Monthly ownership costs relative to income place this market toward the higher end of affordability nationally. Ocoee itself is described publicly as the fastest-growing city in Orange County, with substantial new residential construction underway across multiple developments and a long-running downtown revitalization effort now breaking ground on West Oakland Avenue. The city is car-dependent day-to-day, though the West Orange Trail provides a genuine car-free route through town connecting to Winter Garden and beyond. Healthcare anchors local employment through Orlando Health and AdventHealth, alongside construction firms and manufacturing, with the broader Orlando employment base accessible by a short drive.

District-level context for Orange County Public Schools was searched but we found little about current strategic priorities or parent-relevant changes confirmed during this research cycle, so that was left out rather than guessed at.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 391%

School 91% · District 63% · ▲ 28 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 484%

School 84% · District 64% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 573%

School 73% · District 58% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 688%

School 88% · District 60% · ▲ 28 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 33 pts above county median

Grade 773%

School 73% · District 39% · ▲ 34 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

Grade 873%

School 73% · District 63% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 389%

School 89% · District 59% · ▲ 30 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 59% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 582%

School 82% · District 58% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

Grade 695%

School 95% · District 59% · ▲ 36 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

Grade 791%

School 91% · District 55% · ▲ 36 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 36 pts above county median

Grade 873%

School 73% · District 53% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Science

Grade 580%

School 80% · District 62% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 873%

School 73% · District 52% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 25 pts above county median

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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.