DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL

Set in ARCADIA, Florida, DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL is a moderately sized senior high, one of the schools within DESOTO. It works with 1,215 students across grades 9 through 12.

DESOTO runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,171 students. DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL shows that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 33% White, 12% Black, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL has 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, DeSoto County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 55.7%; this one comes in at 40.0%, -15.6 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, DeSoto County reports that median household earnings sit near $54,417, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 19%. In all, DeSoto County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,171 students), of which DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL is one.

DESOTO VIRTUAL ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 1,248 students in 2018 compared to 1,215 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 37% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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