The top reported proficiency rate is 17% in English language arts. The lowest is 12% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Aspire Academy Charter
Aspire Academy Charter is a small elementary charter school in Orlando, Florida, serving kindergarten through fifth grade and classified as an alternative school. Its enrollment is small, spread fairly evenly across grade levels, and the school sits in a predominantly residential area of northwest Orlando off Malone Drive, a part of the city that carries a more everyday working-neighborhood character than the tourist corridors to the southwest or the denser downtown core.
The student body is predominantly Black, with a substantial Hispanic population and smaller numbers of white and other students. A large share of the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic profile of the families the school serves. Data on students with IEPs and English learner designation were not available in what was provided.
The academic picture on Florida's state assessments is a meaningful concern and deserves a plain look. Across math and ELA in tested grades, proficiency rates are quite low at each grade level. Science results at fifth grade are similarly low. Placed against districts in Orange County, the school's overall proficiency index lands in the bottom quartile of that comparison set, well below the midpoint. These are the most recent available results; trend data across prior years was not available, so it is not possible to say from this data whether performance is improving, holding, or declining. A parent who wants to understand what the school is doing to move these numbers would be well-served to ask directly about academic supports, intervention programming, and any available progress monitoring data the school can share.
Because this is an alternative school, context matters here. Alternative designations in Florida can reflect a range of models, including schools designed to serve students who have not been well-matched by traditional settings, students who are recovering academic ground, or populations with particular needs. The data does not specify which of these describes Aspire's model. What a family sees in the raw proficiency numbers may partly reflect who the school is built to serve and how far those students are traveling from their starting points, rather than the full picture of what the school is doing day to day. That said, the data available does not include growth measures that would allow a clearer view of whether students are making strong gains even from a lower baseline. A parent evaluating this school would want to ask specifically about the school's mission, whom it is designed to serve, and what the learning trajectory looks like for a student who enrolls.
Program information was not available in the data provided.
No graduation rate applies here, as the school serves only kindergarten through fifth grade.
On the housing side, the zip code around Aspire shows home values modestly below both the Florida state benchmark and the national median, with recent year-over-year price movement slightly downward. Rents in the area have also edged down slightly over the past year. The rent-to-income ratio suggests that renting in this zip code consumes a meaningful share of household income by national standards, though the area remains somewhat more accessible than many Orlando zip codes closer to downtown or major employment corridors. Orlando overall is in a sustained growth phase, with large commercial and residential development concentrated downtown and in tourist-adjacent zones; the publicly reported development pipeline, including major mixed-use projects and the opening of a new theme park in 2025, is oriented more toward those parts of the city than toward the northwest residential neighborhoods where the school sits.
District-level parent-relevant changes for Orange County were searched but could not be confirmed before the research was complete, so that context was left out rather than guessed at.
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