The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne
About
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne is a vocational school located in Melbourne, Florida, specializing in beauty education. It offers programs in cosmetology, barbering, skin care, massage therapy, and nail specialty. The academy operates independently and caters to students with various beauty-related training needs.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 11.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 1 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 1 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data1 · 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.
National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
Action history · 2
- Nov 2021Grant Substantive Change: ProgramNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
- Oct 2021Renewal of AccreditationNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
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, 166 students received $758K in Pell grants, alongside $820K 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 89 borrowers who entered repayment, 3 (3.3%) defaulted within three years — above 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 TSPA
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.
TSPA vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions TSPA 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectThe Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne | 86% | — | 163 | $19,821 | — |
Academy for Salon Professionals | — | — | 134 | $12,408 | — |
American Beauty School | — | — | 113 | $10,067 | — |
Arrojo Cosmetology School | — | — | 104 | $22,811 | — |
Artistic Academy of Hair Design | — | — | 88 | $23,786 | — |
Aveda Institute-Boise | — | — | 97 | $17,804 | — |
Aveda Institute-Twin Falls | — | — | 88 | $24,647 | — |
Berkowits School of Electrolysis | — | — | 102 | — | — |
Boise Barber College | — | — | 104 | $15,109 | — |
Central Texas Beauty College-Temple | — | — | 32 | $10,139 | — |
Coachella Valley Beauty College-Hemet | — | — | 94 | $15,776 | — |
Creative Images Institute of Cosmetology-South Dayton | — | — | 69 | $11,797 | — |
Designer Barber & Stylist School | — | 100.0% | 95 | $16,010 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Kennesaw | — | — | 161 | $17,036 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Somersworth | — | — | 184 | $10,198 | — |
Empire Beauty School-West Greensboro | — | — | 99 | $16,625 | — |
Hot Springs Beauty College | — | — | 86 | $10,792 | — |
International Beauty Education Center | — | — | 146 | $17,500 | — |
Long Island Beauty School-Hempstead | — | — | 101 | $29,171 | — |
Nathan Layne Institute of Cosmetology | — | — | 70 | $22,214 | — |
National Beauty College | — | — | 172 | — | — |
O'Briens Aveda Institute | — | — | 80 | $25,367 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Huntsville | — | — | 64 | $23,830 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Milwaukee | — | — | 140 | $17,564 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Rhode Island | — | — | 181 | $32,626 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-San Jose | — | — | 91 | $25,546 | — |
Ravenscroft Beauty College | — | — | 104 | — | — |
Shasta School of Cosmetology | — | — | 112 | $26,582 | — |
Spa Tech Institute-Westboro | — | — | 182 | $18,910 | — |
The Barber School | — | — | 169 | $21,150 | — |
Xtylo Beauty College | — | 100.0% | 57 | $30,274 | — |
| Peer group median | 86% | 100.0% | 102 | $18,357 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Grants & funding (1)
Federal grant awards and open funding opportunities awarded to this institution.
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