Clearwater Academy International is a Scientologist school located in

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. The school serves grades Pre-K to 12 in a co-educational system. It was formed in 1997 after the merger of Jefferson Academy, A To Be School, and the Renaissance Academy. The school is licensed by Applied Scholastics and uses the Study Technology by Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard. The school receives public funding through voucher and tax credit scholarship programs as per a 2017

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investigation where it was disclosed the school received more than $500,000 in taxpayer money for student scholarships between 2012–2016.Inside The Voucher Schools That Teach L. Ron Hubbard, But Say They're Not Scientologist
archived on December 11, 2017, HuffPost Clearwater Academy's football team are called the Knights and they won the 8-man football championships in 2014 and 2015, and moved to 11-to-11 in 2016. In 2017, students from the academy participated in

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relief efforts in Texas.

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