CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL

CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL, a mid-sized secondary school in CRYSTAL RIVER, Florida, operated by CITRUS, instructs 1,293 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 25% above the state mean of about 1,035.

CITRUS comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 15,594 students; CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 60.5%; CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL posts 44.3%, -16.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, Citrus County reports that median household income runs about $56,546, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL is one of 28 public schools in Citrus County (combined enrollment of about 15,594 students).

CRYSTAL RIVER PRIMARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CRYSTAL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 55.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 1,304 students in 2018 compared to 1,293 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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