The top reported proficiency rate is 69% in English language arts. The lowest is 50% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Pasco Virtual Instruction Program (district Provided)
Pasco Virtual Instruction Program (District Provided) is Pasco County Schools' own tuition-free, fully online K-12 option, headquartered in Land O' Lakes at a physical address on Angeline School Way. It is a regular public school in the district's classification, not a charter, and it operates entirely within Pasco's oversight. The school serves kindergarten through twelfth grade, but enrollment is heavily concentrated in the elementary grades, with the vast majority of students in grades three through five and only a handful in middle and high school. That grade distribution is worth knowing before a family with an older child considers enrolling.
The student body is small. Racial and ethnic composition skews majority white, with Hispanic students making up roughly a quarter of enrollment, and smaller shares of Black, Asian, and multiracial students. The share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch is very low compared to typical public schools, suggesting this program draws disproportionately from families above the economic median. Data on students with IEPs and English learners was not available, which is worth asking the school about directly if those supports matter to a family's decision.
State testing results come from Florida's FAST assessments and the statewide science test, with data reported only for the grades where testing applies. In reading, results across tested grades range from solidly above the majority of students proficient to a strong showing in the fourth-grade cohort. Math tells a different story: the third-grade result is moderate and the fifth-grade figure is below the midpoint, meaning roughly half or fewer of those students scored proficient. The fourth- and sixth-grade math results were suppressed, likely reflecting small group sizes rather than missing data. Fifth-grade science came in right at the midpoint. Trend comparisons are not available, so it is not possible to say from this data whether performance is improving, flat, or declining. A parent interested in understanding how results here stack up against brick-and-mortar schools in Pasco County should ask the district for context, because comparison data among Pasco County districts was not applicable given that only one district entity was in the county comparison set.
A graduation rate was not available in the data. Given that high school enrollment is extremely thin, this metric may simply be difficult to compute in a meaningful way for this program.
Civil rights outcome data, chronic absenteeism figures, discipline data, and attendance information were not reported for this school.
Land O' Lakes itself is a car-dependent, fast-growing suburban community in north Pasco County. Publicly reported sources describe it as one of the fastest-growing areas in Florida, with deep new-home inventory across master-planned developments like Connerton and the emerging Angeline community. Home values in the area sit above the statewide median and above the national baseline, though both have softened modestly in the past year. Rents are also running slightly lower year-over-year. For a family budgeting for housing, the rent-to-income ratio is meaningful, and mortgage costs relative to income are worth modeling carefully. The Angeline development, where the school's address falls, is being built out alongside Moffitt Cancer Center's large life sciences campus, Speros, which publicly reported sources describe as a major long-term employment anchor for the area.
At the district level, Pasco voters in 2022 approved a millage referendum to raise non-administrative salaries; teacher vacancies have dropped substantially since. Voters also renewed the "Penny for Pasco" sales tax, which funds capital construction, school renovations, and safety improvements across the district. Families in high-growth parts of Pasco, particularly Wesley Chapel, have seen attendance-zone boundary adjustments and should watch for further rezoning.
For a family already committed to full-time virtual learning within the Pasco district, this program is the district-managed path rather than a private virtual option. The academic picture is mixed at the grade levels where testing is available, and the program's very small high school cohort means a family with secondary-aged children should probe carefully what the experience looks like in practice at those grade levels.
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