The top reported proficiency rate is 47% in Math. The lowest is 30% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Hudson Primary Academy
Hudson Primary Academy sits on Cobra Way in Hudson, a Gulf Coast community within Pasco County and the broader Tampa Bay metro area. The school is a regular public elementary campus serving prekindergarten through fifth grade, and its location between Hudson High School and Hudson Academy places it at the heart of a cluster of Pasco County schools in the western part of the county.
The enrollment is sizable for a PK-5 campus, though the grade distribution is worth noting. The school is heavily concentrated in its younger grades, with prekindergarten through third grade accounting for nearly the entire population. Fourth and fifth grade each enroll only a small handful of students, which is an unusual pattern for a school spanning those grades and may reflect a transition in how students are routed as they age up. Parents of children approaching upper elementary should ask the school directly how that transition works and where students go after third grade.
A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this in the higher end of the economic need range. Racial and ethnic composition shows a predominantly white enrollment, with Hispanic students representing a meaningful share and smaller populations of Black students and multiracial students. Data on students with IEPs and English learner populations was not available, so those support environments cannot be characterized here.
On Florida's FAST assessments, third-grade math proficiency sits below the midpoint statewide, and third-grade reading proficiency is lower still, trailing the math result by a noticeable margin. Science data available in the record is from a prior school year and was reported under a different school identity, so it carries limited weight as a current picture. There are no multi-year trend data on file, meaning it is not possible to say whether performance has been improving, holding steady, or declining. Parents who want a fuller academic picture would benefit from asking the school for its most recent grade-by-grade results and any improvement plans the campus is working toward.
The comparison framework for this county includes only one district, so no meaningful peer positioning is available. Graduation rate is not applicable since the school ends at fifth grade. Chronic absenteeism data was not reported.
The housing market around Hudson runs moderately below the Florida statewide median home value, and values have edged down slightly over the past year while the state benchmark has declined at a steeper pace. Rents in the area carry a monthly cost that consumes a meaningful share of the median household income, which aligns with broader national rental affordability pressures. The community itself is car-dependent, built around the U.S. 19 corridor and low-density canal-front subdivisions. Healthcare anchors the local economy, with the area's largest employer being a regional hospital. Senior care and service-sector work represent much of the remaining employment base. New residential construction is arriving on the edges of the CDP, though the community itself has been roughly flat in population in recent years.
At the Pasco County school district level, two voter-approved measures shape the near-term environment. A property-tax referendum passed in 2022 has funded salary increases for teachers and non-administrative staff, and teacher vacancies have dropped substantially since it took effect; a renewal is headed to the November 2026 ballot, which means homeowners face an ongoing decision about that property-tax levy. A renewed sales-tax measure funds capital construction, renovations, safety improvements, and technology across the district. Growth pressures are concentrated in East Pasco around Wesley Chapel rather than in the Hudson area, so boundary changes and new school openings there are less likely to affect families on this side of the county directly.
Hudson Primary Academy is a neighborhood public elementary in a working-class coastal community, one with meaningful academic needs signaled by both the economic context and the state assessment results. Families considering it should go in with a clear picture of the grade-transition structure and probe the school about reading and math support programs for students performing below grade level.
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