DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL

DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL is a reasonably sized junior high in DUNEDIN, Florida, one of the schools within PINELLAS. The school hosts 842 students in grades 6 through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 24% Hispanic, 18% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Pinellas County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.2%, the actual is 64.2%, a residual of +3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 7%. DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 155 public schools in Pinellas County (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students).

DUNEDIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,035 (now 842).

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