Renaissance Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kissimmee FL

Original Research by School Decision on Renaissance Academy of Arts and Sciences

Renaissance Academy of Arts and Sciences sits on Boggy Creek Road in Kissimmee, a charter school serving kindergarten through ninth grade, with no enrollment currently reported in the upper high school grades. That grade-band gap is worth asking about directly: the school is technically chartered through grade twelve, but the data shows no students enrolled in grades ten, eleven, or twelve, which a family considering long-term continuity here would want to clarify with the school.

The student body is substantial for an independent charter, and it skews heavily Hispanic, reflecting the broader demographics of Kissimmee and Osceola County. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, meaning this is a school serving a largely working-class community. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided, so a parent whose child receives special education services or language support should ask directly about those programs and staffing.

State testing results from Florida's FAST assessments give a mixed picture. In the early elementary grades, reading and math proficiency runs in the upper fifties to low sixties, which is a reasonable showing. Science in fifth grade is a genuine strength, sitting above where the math and ELA numbers land. The pattern shifts in middle school. By eighth grade, math proficiency drops to roughly a quarter of students, and ELA and science follow the same downward arc. The slide from third-grade to eighth-grade math is notable. A parent whose child enters in elementary school with solid early results should ask what structural supports exist as students move into the middle grades, because the data suggests something changes in that transition. No trend data across prior years was available, so whether these numbers are improving, holding, or declining cannot be determined from what's here.

No AP, dual enrollment, or career pathway information was included in the data provided, so those program dimensions cannot be assessed. Given that the upper high school grades appear to have no students enrolled, any advanced-coursework picture would be incomplete at best.

The school operates within the Osceola County charter framework. The district brief returned little usable information before research resources ran out, so parent-relevant district-level changes were not identified and are left out rather than guessed at.

The broader context is Kissimmee itself, a city with a sharp internal character split. The historic downtown around Broadway is genuinely walkable, anchored by civic institutions, a SunRail commuter stop, Lakefront Park on Lake Tohopekaliga, and what is publicly reported as the largest independently owned restaurant district in Central Florida. The western corridor near the theme-park area is something different: car-dependent, commercially dense, and defined by tourism employment and a high concentration of short-term vacation rentals. Kissimmee is described in publicly reported sources as one of Central Florida's fastest-growing markets, with new master-planned communities alongside downtown infill and a planned streetscape redesign project called Connect Kissimmee.

Housing costs in the zip code sit close to the Florida state average and slightly above the national average, and values have dipped modestly over the past year. Rents have also eased slightly. At current mortgage rates, the estimated monthly cost of ownership comes out meaningfully above the average rental rate, so renting remains the more affordable short-term entry point for many families in this market. The rent-to-income ratio runs above a third of income, which is a stretch by conventional budgeting standards.

For a family weighing this school, the early-grades academic picture is decent, the school's arts-and-sciences identity may appeal, and the community is a lively, growing city with real character in its historic core. The middle-school performance data and the absence of students in the upper grades are the two things that deserve a direct conversation with school leadership before committing.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 362%

School 62% · District 54% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 451%

School 51% · District 49% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 548%

School 48% · District 42% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 644%

School 44% · District 49% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 759%

School 59% · District 38% · ▲ 21 pts above district

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

Grade 825%

School 25% · District 52% · ▼ 27 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 360%

School 60% · District 51% · ▲ 9 pts above district

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

Grade 457%

School 57% · District 47% · ▲ 10 pts above district

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

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 48% · ▲ 11 pts above district

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

Grade 647%

School 47% · District 52% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 749%

School 49% · District 49%

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

Grade 842%

School 42% · District 49% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Science

Grade 564%

School 64% · District 46% · ▲ 18 pts above district

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

Grade 834%

School 34% · District 43% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

This schoolOSCEOLA, 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-income53%Higher-income71%19 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income68%Higher-income39%29 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income60%Higher-income58%2 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income36%Higher-income60%24 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income49%Higher-income48%1 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income33%Higher-income52%19 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income58%Higher-income68%10 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income50%Higher-income52%2 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income44%Higher-income53%8 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income28%Higher-income62%34 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income60%Higher-income56%4 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income23%Higher-income30%7 pp gap