Ucp Bailes Community Academy, Orlando FL

Original Research by School Decision on Ucp Bailes Community Academy

UCP Bailes Community Academy is a charter school classified as an alternative school, serving kindergarten through eighth grade on Data Court in Orlando's East Orlando corridor. The "UCP" name connects it to United Cerebral Palsy, and the school's alternative designation signals that it operates with a specific population or educational approach in mind, though the data provided does not spell out its admission criteria or therapeutic model in detail. Parents researching this school should ask the school directly about whom it serves and what its program design entails, since those details shape whether it is the right fit.

Enrollment sits in a range that makes this a mid-sized school for its grade band. The student body is majority Hispanic, with substantial shares of white and Black students and smaller Asian and multiracial populations. Just over two-fifths of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on English learner status and students with IEPs was not available in the data provided, which is worth following up on directly given the school's alternative classification.

On Florida's FAST assessments, proficiency rates across most grades and subjects are low. In math, most grade levels show less than a third of students reaching proficiency, with seventh grade well below the others. Science results at both tested grade levels are similarly modest. ELA results are mixed: most grades cluster in the low-to-mid range, though sixth grade ELA stands out as meaningfully higher than the rest. Relative to districts in Orange County, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile of that comparison set. A parent weighing these numbers should understand that alternative schools frequently serve students with interrupted schooling, disabilities, or other circumstances that shape tested outcomes in ways raw proficiency rates do not capture. That context does not make the numbers irrelevant, but it does make them harder to interpret without knowing more about the population the school is designed to serve. It would be reasonable to ask the school what its academic trajectory looks like for students who complete the full program.

Trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether proficiency is rising or falling over time.

No program offerings, AP or dual-enrollment coursework, staffing ratios, attendance figures, or discipline data were included in the available data. Given that this is a K-8 school, the absence of graduation rate data is expected; that metric does not apply to this grade band.

The school sits in East Orlando, which publicly reported sources describe as a suburban part of a large, car-oriented city. The broader Orlando area is in active growth, with major downtown development projects and employment anchored by healthcare, tourism, education, and aerospace. Housing values in the zip code are above the Florida statewide median and above the national benchmark, and home values have dipped modestly over the past year. Rents are running at a level that consumes a substantial share of a median household income. Families weighing this area should factor in those housing costs alongside the school choice.

The district brief for Orange County schools returned no publicly reported parent-relevant changes before the search window closed, so district-level context on policy or programmatic shifts 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 327%

School 27% · District 63% · ▼ 36 pts below district

▼ 36 pts below state median · ▼ 33 pts below county median

Grade 431%

School 31% · District 64% · ▼ 33 pts below district

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Grade 521%

School 21% · District 58% · ▼ 37 pts below district

▼ 34 pts below state median · ▼ 34 pts below county median

Grade 641%

School 41% · District 60% · ▼ 19 pts below district

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

Grade 711%

School 11% · District 39% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 38 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 823%

School 23% · District 63% · ▼ 40 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 36 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 59% · ▼ 23 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 427%

School 27% · District 59% · ▼ 31 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 58% · ▼ 30 pts below district

▼ 27 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 660%

School 60% · District 59% · ▲ 1 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 735%

School 35% · District 55% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 824%

School 24% · District 53% · ▼ 29 pts below district

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Science

Grade 515%

School 15% · District 62% · ▼ 47 pts below district

▼ 38 pts below state median · ▼ 45 pts below county median

Grade 821%

School 21% · District 52% · ▼ 31 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

This schoolORANGE, 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-income43%Higher-income33%10 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income18%Higher-income33%15 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income16%Higher-income36%20 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income58%Higher-income61%3 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income18%Higher-income48%30 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income20%Higher-income26%6 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income21%Higher-income30%9 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income23%Higher-income37%14 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income12%Higher-income29%17 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income25%Higher-income53%28 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income8%Higher-income14%7 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income21%Higher-income24%2 pp gap