Athenian Academy, Clearwater FL - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Athenian Academy

Athenian Academy is a charter school in Clearwater, Florida, serving kindergarten through eighth grade on North Hercules Avenue. It operates independently from Pinellas County Schools, which means some of the district-level developments that affect traditional public schools in the county, such as the recently doubled school property tax and the district's custom science-of-reading ELA curriculum rollout, may apply differently or not at all here. Families considering Athenian Academy should ask the school directly about its curriculum approach and how it is funded.

The school enrolls a few hundred students spread across nine grade levels, making it on the smaller side for a K-8 campus. The student body is mixed: white students form a slim majority, with Hispanic students making up roughly a third, and smaller populations of Black, multiracial, and Asian students. About half of enrolled students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a broad economic range. Data on English learner services and special education identification rates were not available in what we reviewed, so a parent with a child who may need those supports would want to ask the school directly about capacity and staffing.

On Florida's FAST assessments, the academic picture is uneven and worth looking at carefully by grade level. In math, proficiency in the early elementary grades runs below the midpoint, rising into the middle grades but still short of solid majorities in several cohorts. Fifth-grade math is the strongest elementary result, and seventh-grade math is the strongest across the whole tested range. In reading and language arts, the lower elementary grades show weaker results, with fourth grade particularly low. The middle school ELA numbers are considerably stronger, with both seventh and eighth grade posting results well above the midpoint. Science scores in tested grades are a genuine bright spot, with fifth and eighth grade both posting results that exceed the majority threshold comfortably. There are no multi-year trend lines available, so it is not possible to say from the data whether performance is improving, stable, or declining. A parent may want to ask the school about how it tracks and responds to the grade-level variation in math and early reading.

No program-level information was available in what we reviewed, such as any arts, enrichment, dual-enrollment, or specialized pathway offerings. Because this is a K-8 school, AP coursework, career pathways, and graduation rates are not applicable measures here. Attendance and discipline data were also not available.

Athenian Academy sits in Clearwater, a mid-sized Pinellas County city with a genuinely mixed character. The area around North Hercules Avenue is residential and suburban rather than part of the walkable downtown corridor, which is concentrated along Cleveland Street and the waterfront a few miles away. The housing market in the zip code shows home values that have declined modestly over the past year and sit well below Florida's statewide median, meaning the area is more accessible to buyers than many parts of the state. Rents have softened slightly as well. Clearwater's downtown is undergoing a large wave of redevelopment, including a new city hall, a major waterfront hotel, and a tall mixed-use apartment building near Coachman Park, which was itself reopened in 2023 after a major renovation. The broader civic infrastructure includes transit connections, a ferry to the beach, and a public library downtown. Major employers in the area span IT distribution, aerospace manufacturing, and medical technology, giving the regional economy some diversity.

For a family weighing this school, the clearest picture from the available data is a small, economically diverse charter serving K-8, with science performance that stands out, uneven reading and math results especially in the lower elementary grades, and some meaningful data gaps around special education and English learner services.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 337%

School 37% · District 68% · ▼ 31 pts below district

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

Grade 446%

School 46% · District 68% · ▼ 22 pts below district

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

Grade 554%

School 54% · District 65% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 638%

School 38% · District 63% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 759%

School 59% · District 33% · ▲ 26 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

Grade 850%

School 50% · District 64% · ▼ 14 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 65% · ▼ 16 pts below district

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

Grade 433%

School 33% · District 62% · ▼ 28 pts below district

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

Grade 546%

School 46% · District 61% · ▼ 15 pts below district

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

Grade 663%

School 63% · District 61% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 769%

School 69% · District 59% · ▲ 10 pts above district

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

Grade 871%

School 71% · District 59% · ▲ 12 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 563%

School 63% · District 67% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 866%

School 66% · District 58% · ▲ 8 pts above district

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

This schoolPINELLAS, 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-income41%Higher-income62%21 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income37%Higher-income26%11 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income33%Higher-income57%23 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income50%Higher-income81%31 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income67%Higher-income72%6 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income67%Higher-income75%8 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income27%Higher-income54%27 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income41%Higher-income53%12 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income39%Higher-income65%26 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income21%Higher-income63%42 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income48%Higher-income72%25 pp gap