Educare Envision College of Nursing Student Defense Lawyer | Melbourne

Educare Envision College of Nursing, at 255 East Drive in Melbourne, holds a Florida Commission for Independent Education licence (institution #6478) and runs two nursing programmes: a Professional Nursing associate in science of 72 credit hours, and a Practical Nursing diploma of 1,350 clock hours.

67.74% of 31 first-time candidates

The associate-degree programme passed 67.74% of 31 first-time candidates in 2025 against a floor of 76.05% — twenty-one passes and ten failures, roughly eight points short. The practical-nursing programme did worse: 45.00% of 20 first-time candidates against the 77.17% practical-nursing floor, a shortfall of more than thirty points. Both programmes were therefore below their respective floors in the same year.

The fact that the school runs both an ASN and a PN programme matters more than it sounds, because the two are measured against different statutory floors: 76.05% for associate-degree programmes in 2025 and 77.17% for practical nursing. A student needs to know which programme they were enrolled in before any conclusion is drawn about whether their programme was below the line, and the two programmes may have separate handbooks with separate progression and appeal rules.

Under Fla. Stat. section 464.019(5)(a)1 a Florida nursing programme’s first-time NCLEX passage rate must stay within 10 percentage points of the national average for comparable programmes — in 2025 that floor was 76.05% for associate-degree programmes and 77.17% for practical-nursing programmes. Section 464.019(5)(a)2 puts a programme two consecutive years below the floor at risk of probation and loss of approval, and section 464.019(5)(c) then obliges the programme to disclose that probationary status in writing to its students and applicants — a failure to give that notice is an independent, statute-based misrepresentation theory against a school that enrolled a student while on probation. A single year below the floor is not probation, and the Board of Nursing publishes no probation roster, so probationary status must be established from board minutes and orders rather than inferred. Every Florida programme is tabulated on the Florida nursing programme pass-rate page.

A private school, so the statute students rely on does not apply

Most writing about Florida student dismissal assumes a public college, where Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) supplies notice, a hearing, the right to be accompanied by counsel and a burden that rests on the institution. This is a private institution. None of that section reaches it.

What governs instead is the enrolment agreement, the catalogue and the student and programme handbooks, read as a contract. Sharick v. Southeastern University of the Health Sciences establishes that a Florida student dismissed in breach of the school’s own contractual undertakings has a claim, and that damages can extend to lost future earning capacity rather than a refund of tuition. So the work is documentary: identify the exact promises the school made about process, and show which it did not keep.

Two further things matter at schools of this kind. Many enrolment agreements contain an arbitration clause, and whether it binds a student depends on the version signed, how broadly it is drafted, whether its cost terms are unconscionable and whether the school has waived it — that question comes first, because it decides whether there is a courtroom at all. And where a school is licensed by the Florida Commission for Independent Education rather than regionally accredited, the CIE complaint route exists alongside any civil claim and is often the faster pressure point.

Where an Educare Envision case is filed

Melbourne is in Brevard County, in the Middle District of Florida, assigned by Local Rule 1.04(a) to the Orlando Division — subject to any forum or arbitration term in the enrolment agreement. The school is licensed by the CIE rather than carrying a federal IPEDS record, so the CIE complaint route sits alongside any civil claim and is frequently the more responsive lever.

What can a student defense lawyer do here?

  • Resolve the arbitration question first, from the agreement the student actually signed.
  • Assemble the enrolment agreement, catalogue and programme handbook for the correct edition, and pin down the promises about process.
  • Test the progression arithmetic — withdrawals, repeats and clinical failures are often counted in ways the handbook does not authorise.
  • Use the Commission for Independent Education complaint route where the school is CIE-licensed, in parallel with the civil claim.
  • Press on the wording of the decision letter, which follows the student into every future licensure and transfer application.

How Florida student dismissal cases work generally is set out on the Florida student defence page.

Other Florida nursing programs

Every school writes its own dismissal, appeal and conduct rules, and the filing deadlines are rarely the same from one campus to the next. These pages set out the procedure at other Florida nursing programs:

Common questions about Educare Envision College of Nursing cases

What was Educare Envision’s pass rate?

The associate-degree programme passed 67.74% of 31 first-time candidates in 2025 — twenty-one passes and ten failures — against a floor of 76.05%.

Which programmes does the school run?

Two: a Professional Nursing associate in science of 72 credit hours, and a Practical Nursing diploma of 1,350 clock hours, both under its Commission for Independent Education licence.

Why does it matter which programme I was in?

Because the statutory floors differ — 76.05% for associate-degree programmes in 2025 and 77.17% for practical nursing — and the two programmes may have separate handbooks with separate progression and appeal rules.

Which court covers Melbourne?

The Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division. Melbourne is in Brevard County — subject to any forum-selection or arbitration clause.