BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL

BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL is a secondary school of mid-sized scale in GULFPORT, Florida, overseen by PINELLAS, serveing 1,039 students in grades 9 through 12.

Across the 151 schools in PINELLAS (87,955 students total), BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black, at 55% of enrollment; the rest looks like 25% White, 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Pinellas County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.9%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of -8.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Pinellas County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL is one.

DISSTON ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 59.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 41% since 2018, when it stood at 1,754 (now 1,039). White enrollment moved from 34% to 25% across the same window.

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