Merryfield Academy
About
Merryfield Academy is a nationally accredited vocational school located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, established in 2006. The academy offers programs focused on Professional Pet Grooming, HVAC Technician training, and Massage Therapy, with a total facility size of 16,000 square feet to accommodate classrooms and labs for hands-on training.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 2 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 2 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data2 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges
Action history · 1
- Jun 2022Renewal of AccreditationAccrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 81 students received $319K in Pell grants, alongside $352K in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 35 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Merryfield Academy
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Merryfield Academy vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Merryfield Academy selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectMerryfield Academy | 78% | — | 70 | $10,019 | — |
American College of Healthcare and Technology | — | — | 272 | $15,115 | — |
American College of Healthcare and Technology-Santa Ana | — | — | 51 | $14,794 | — |
Arizona Culinary Institute | — | — | 149 | $37,938 | — |
Brand College | — | 80.0% | 15 | — | — |
California Healing Arts College | — | — | 243 | $19,024 | — |
Crescent City Bartending School | — | — | 570 | $19,078 | — |
Culinary Tech Center | — | — | — | $15,763 | — |
Diversified Vocational College | — | — | 264 | $21,444 | — |
DSDT | — | — | 132 | $25,919 | — |
Focus Personal Training Institute | — | — | 64 | $18,870 | — |
Institute of Culinary Education | — | — | 589 | — | — |
Kentucky Horseshoeing School | — | — | 31 | $30,111 | — |
Motion Picture Institute | — | 89.7% | 53 | — | — |
National Personal Training Institute | — | — | 36 | $12,583 | — |
National Personal Training Institute-Tampa | — | — | 15 | $13,709 | — |
P C Age-Jersey City | — | — | 106 | $22,327 | — |
PC AGE-Metropark | — | — | 46 | $22,528 | — |
Pets Playground Grooming School | — | — | 22 | — | — |
Professional Culinary Academy | — | — | 17 | $37,471 | — |
Ross Medical Education Center-Canton | — | — | 92 | $26,387 | — |
Stellar Career College | — | — | 46 | $13,155 | — |
Studio Jewelers | — | — | 74 | $9,590 | — |
The Culinary School of Fort Worth | — | 77.5% | 92 | $23,861 | — |
| Peer group median | 78% | 80.0% | 70 | $19,051 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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