Independent rankings of Charter Elementary schools with Gifted programs, built from director interviews and verified data — never from school payments.
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We track 17 charter elementary-level schools across our active markets in Florida and New York. All schools on this page are tuition-free charter campuses. 2 of these schools accept Florida Step Up / FES scholarships — roughly 12% of the list — so families using state-funded scholarships have real choice here.
Charter schools are publicly funded, tuition-free, and admit by lottery when over-subscribed. Most accept applications via a single window in late winter; siblings, in-district residents, and prior-year applicants typically get preference. 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: Learning Support, IB (International Baccalaureate), Language Immersion.
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.
Wesley Chapel·Pasco County·Grades K-8·~1,259 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·~1,169 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·~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·~907 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·~783 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.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades PK-8·~459 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.
St. Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades K-8·~377 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·~336 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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