BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL

BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL is a small senior high in BRANFORD, Florida, operated by SUWANNEE. The school educates 799 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

SUWANNEE runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 6,004 students. BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL logs that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Suwannee County's rate of about 56%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.8%, the actual is 58.2%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Suwannee County put median household income runs about $56,658, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Suwannee County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,004 students), of which BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL is one.

BRANFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 59.3%.

BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 11%: 720 students in 2018 compared to 799 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 77% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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