PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL

PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL is one of the heavily attended secondary schools in PENSACOLA, Florida, overseen by ESCAMBIA, with 1,604 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 55% bigger than typical.

ESCAMBIA comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 36,795 students; PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 26% White, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 21% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.3%; PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL posts 36.8%, -16.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, Escambia County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,500 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Escambia County's 71 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,056 students), PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

ESCAMBIA VIRTUAL ACADEMY FRANCHISE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.9%.

PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 1,614 students in 2018 compared to 1,604 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 34% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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