Ruben's Five Star Academy

Ruben's Five Star Academy is a private for-profit vocational school located in Lake Wales, Florida, in a large suburban setting. The academy offers a Barbering/Barber certificate program, providing focused training for students seeking professional barbering careers in the Polk County area.

The academy is one of the smaller trade schools in the region with a total enrollment of 30 students (IPEDS 2023). Despite its small size, it maintains strong outcomes with an 88% completion rate (IPEDS 2023) and a 100% retention rate (IPEDS 2023). The perfect retention rate indicates that every enrolled student continues their training through the full program duration. Ruben's Five Star Academy holds a quality score of 72.33/100.

The school's small enrollment creates a low student-to-instructor environment well suited to hands-on barbering instruction. Students in the central Florida area looking for a focused, completion-oriented barbering program will find a school where every student who starts is retained through the training period and prepared for the Florida state barbering licensure examination.