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Dayspring Academy
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades K-12·~1,259 students
DOE 2026
NoneCo-ed
TuitionFree
TypeNone
Students~1,259
NEW PORT RICHEY
Best Pre-K Schools in New Port Richey tuition-free
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Looking for the best pre-k schools in New Port Richey? We track 8 K-12 options that serve pre-k grades. All schools on this page are tuition-free charter campuses. New Port Richey has the highest concentration with 8 schools. 2 of these schools accept Florida Step Up / FES scholarships — roughly 25% of the list — so families using state-funded scholarships have real choice here.
Admissions processes vary by school. AdmitCompass surfaces the deadlines, test requirements, and tuition for each campus on its detail page, so families can build a balanced reach / target / safety list. Every school is re-verified through direct outreach to admissions teams; data is refreshed on a 180-day cadence and timestamped on each profile.
See also: Under $20K/yr, Scholarship-friendly.
Showing 8 of 8 New Port Richey schools
- 2Academy at the Farm
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades K-8·~727 students
DOE 2026
Co-edTuitionFreeTypeCharterStudents~727 - 3Plato Academy Trinity
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades K-8·~524 students
TuitionFreeTypeCharterStudents~524 - 4Athenian Academy of Technology and the Arts
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades K-8·~404 students
DOE 2026
Co-edTuitionFreeTypeCharterStudents~404 - 5Classical Preparatory School
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades K-12·~232 students
DOE 2026
Accepts scholarshipsNON-DENOMINATIONALCo-edTuitionFreeTypeNON-DENOMINATIONALStudents~232 - 6Innovation Preparatory Academy
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades K-8·~68 students
DOE 2026
Accepts scholarshipsNON-DENOMINATIONALCo-edTuitionFreeTypeNON-DENOMINATIONALStudents~68 - 7Imagine School at Land O' Lakes
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades K-8·~895 students
DOE 2026
Co-edTuitionFreeTypeCharterStudents~895 - 8Pepin Academies Of Pasco County
New Port Richey·Pasco County·Grades 3-12·~336 students
TuitionFreeTypeCharterStudents~336
How we rank these schools
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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Are these schools tuition-free?
Yes. Every school on this page is publicly funded — either a charter or a tuition-free public-school-of-choice option. Families pay no tuition; standard public-school district enrollment rules and lottery procedures apply.
How competitive is admission in New Port Richey?
Admissions selectivity ranges from open-enrollment (most charters and parish schools) to highly selective (top independent K-12 programs). Each school's profile page lists deadlines, test requirements, and any published acceptance rate.
Do these schools accept Step Up / FES scholarships?
2 of the 8 schools on this page accept Florida's Step Up For Students / FES-EO / FES-UA scholarships. That covers most or all of tuition for income-eligible families. Each school's detail page lists the specific scholarship programs accepted.
What's the smallest and largest school on this list?
Innovation Preparatory Academy is the smallest with 68 students; Dayspring Academy is the largest at 1259. Smaller schools tend to offer more direct teacher contact and tighter community; larger schools usually have more elective and extracurricular breadth.
Is this list updated?
Yes. We re-verify school data on a 180-day cadence through direct contact with admissions teams, plus cross-checks against FLDOE, NCES, and published school sources. Each school profile shows the date of its most recent verification.
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