Acceleration Academies LLC

Acceleration Academies LLC in Homestead, FL, is a non-traditional high school (Grades 9-12) within the Miami-Dade school district, designed specifically to re-engage students who have dropped out or are significantly off-track for graduation, serving a small, highly transient population.

This school is fundamentally different from traditional high schools in the area. Its primary mission is credit recovery and dropout re-engagement, not competing on standard academic metrics. The most telling statistic is its extremely low graduation rate of 22.6% for the 2024-2025 school year. This is dramatically lower than every nearby school, which all reported rates above 80% (ranging from 81.8% at Charter High School of the Americas (Florida City Campus) to 100% at School for Advanced Studies Homestead and Center for International Education A Cambridge Associate School). The district average is 93.1%, and the state average is 92.2%. The only nearby school with a similar profile is Chambers High School, which also serves a high-needs population and has a graduation rate of 31.8%—still higher than Acceleration Academies. This suggests Acceleration Academies serves an even more at-risk population.

While academic proficiency is very low, there is a slight upward trend from the 2024-2025 to the 2025-2026 school year. For example, Algebra 1 proficiency improved from 11% to 16%, Geometry from 5% to 21%, and Biology 1 from 13% to 29%. This could indicate recent programmatic changes are beginning to yield small gains. The school's per-student spending of $7,489 (2019-2020) is lower than most nearby schools, such as Homestead Senior High School ($12,106) and Keys Gate Charter High School ($11,172). However, given its unique model of individualized instruction and wraparound services, one might expect higher spending. The school also has significant data gaps, including missing recent enrollment and free/reduced lunch percentages, making it difficult to fully assess its current operational health.