CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL

As a reasonably sized 9-12 campus in CLEARWATER, Florida, CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL educates 1,543 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within PINELLAS. Enrollment runs roughly 49% bigger than the state mean of about 1,035.

CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL is one of 151 schools operated by PINELLAS, a district that instructs 87,955 students overall.

Demographically, CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 34% White, 21% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Pinellas County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL has 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.4:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 45.6%, a residual of -10.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Pinellas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL is one of 155 public schools in Pinellas County (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students).

The closest other public school is SKYCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 66.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,897 (now 1,543). Over the same period, the White share declined from 44% to 34%. Class-load math has widened: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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