Independent rankings of Middle schools with Language Immersion programs, built from director interviews and verified data — never from school payments.
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Choosing a middle school is a multi-year commitment. AdmitCompass tracks 22 middle-serving schools across our active markets. All schools on this page are tuition-free charter campuses.
Middle-school admission is the most competitive transition point at many independent schools. Expect a standardized test (ISEE, SSAT, or in-house), a writing sample, and teacher recommendations from 4th or 5th grade. Every school is re-verified through direct outreach to admissions teams; data is refreshed on a 180-day cadence and timestamped on each profile.
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We rank by how well each school fits your family — academics, cost, distance, and values. Never by size, popularity, or payment (schools can’t pay for rank). The coarse admission-likelihood band is always free.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades K-8·~1,344 students
DOE 2026 · NCES
Open-enrollment charter — most applicants are admitted when seats remain; oversubscribed grades use a lottery. General signal, not personalized.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades PK-8·~1,007 students
DOE 2026 · NCES
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades K-8·~984 students
DOE 2026 · NCES
Open-enrollment charter — most applicants are admitted when seats remain; oversubscribed grades use a lottery. General signal, not personalized.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades K-8·~903 students
DOE 2026 · NCES
Open-enrollment charter — most applicants are admitted when seats remain; oversubscribed grades use a lottery. General signal, not personalized.
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades K-8·~727 students
DOE 2026 · NCES
Open-enrollment charter — most applicants are admitted when seats remain; oversubscribed grades use a lottery. General signal, not personalized.
St. Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades K-8·~616 students
DOE 2026 · NCES
Open-enrollment charter — most applicants are admitted when seats remain; oversubscribed grades use a lottery. General signal, not personalized.
St. Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades K-8·~535 students
DOE 2026 · NCES
Open-enrollment charter — most applicants are admitted when seats remain; oversubscribed grades use a lottery. General signal, not personalized.
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades K-8·~524 students
NCES
Open-enrollment charter — most applicants are admitted when seats remain; oversubscribed grades use a lottery. General signal, not personalized.
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades K-8·~404 students
DOE 2026 · NCES
Open-enrollment charter — most applicants are admitted when seats remain; oversubscribed grades use a lottery. General signal, not personalized.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades K-12·~393 students
DOE 2026 · NCES
Open-enrollment charter — most applicants are admitted when seats remain; oversubscribed grades use a lottery. General signal, not personalized.
Built relationships, not scrapers. AdmitCompass ranks schools using a composite score that blends four signals: enrollment size (a proxy for stability and program breadth), tuition reasonableness within the local market, freshness of our most recent verification, and a small bonus for schools with full admissions detail published on their profile.
Public data comes from the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE), the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and each school's own admissions pages. The information that actually matters to most families — acceptance rates, deadlines, what a director cares about — comes from direct interviews with school directors and admissions coaches across our active markets.
We do not publish scoring weights or per-axis thresholds. That keeps the moat intact: the rankings reflect actual conversations with people inside schools, not a formula anyone with a crawler could clone. Every profile is re-verified on a 180-day cadence, and the "last updated" date is timestamped on every school page.
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