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How has ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
1,634
High
DISTRICT 777 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ESCAMBIA·NCES 120051000794
ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL
1310 N 65TH AVE, PENSACOLA, FL 32506 · (850) 453-3221 · Escambia County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,634 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Florida public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public high schools
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
76 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
953 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 521 | 32% |
| Grade 10 | 419 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 398 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 296 | 18% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
35.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
30.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.0% | 30.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.9% | 29.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL
ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (40.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,634 | 58.3% | 40.1% |
| RUTHERFORD HIGH SCHOOL PANAMA CITY | 1,394 | 57.7% | 34.0% |
| HERITAGE HIGH SCHOOL PALM BAY | 1,960 | 57.7% | 46.0% |
| ORANGE PARK HIGH SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 1,844 | 60.8% | 58.6% |
| PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL PENSACOLA | 1,604 | 55.6% | 36.8% |
| MAINLAND HIGH SCHOOL DAYTONA BEACH | 1,964 | 65.1% | 49.7% |
Matched among Florida high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Escambia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #485 of 555 | #6 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #411 of 549 ▼ 64 | #6 of 8 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #533 of 559 ▲ 13 | #7 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,634 | #261 of 830 | #3 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.5:1 | #251 of 575 | #7 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.6% | #71 of 594 | #2 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.3% | #119 of 630 | #2 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.6% | #133 of 289 | #2 of 6 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,634
-179 (-10%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 1,729
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
was 21.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,634 | 76 | 21.5:1 | 58% (953) |
| 2023-24 | 1,654 | 57 | 29.0:1 | 64% (1,061) |
| 2022-23 | 1,655 | 78 | 21.2:1 | 62% (1,034) |
| 2020-21 | 1,813 | 84 | 21.6:1 | 55% (1,000) |
| 2017-18 | 1,828 | 92 | 19.9:1 | 54% (996) |
| 2015-16 | 1,749 | 93 | 18.8:1 | 62% (1,091) |
| 2010-11 | 1,860 | 115 | 16.2:1 | 49% (903) |
| 2000-01 | 1,990 | 104 | 19.1:1 | 35% (693) |
| 1990-91 | 1,729 | 101 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL.
About ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL
The public high school ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL is located in PENSACOLA, Florida. The school enrolls 1,634 students, from grades 9 through 12. Average enrollment for high schools in Florida is about 1,035, so this school runs 58% bigger than that.
ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL is one of 66 schools in ESCAMBIA, which enrolls 36,795 students in total.
Black students are the largest group at ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL, with 39% of enrollment. Other reported shares: 37% White, 12% multiracial, and 10% Hispanic. Escambia County's residents are about 21% Black, 18 points below the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 69%.
The teaching staff at ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL is 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 21.5:1. That ratio is under the 23.5:1 average for high schools in Florida. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 58%.
The allk12 Grade for ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL is C-. Compared with Florida public high schools, the school scored higher than 16% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Florida schools: 40.1% actual against 51.9% predicted.
Within Escambia County, median household income is about $67,500, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 30%, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Escambia County number 71 and enroll about 37,056.
The next-closest public school is MYRTLE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 46.8% on proficiency, and ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL is below that at 40.1%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL went from 1,813 students to 1,634.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Escambia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
325,923
Census ACS
Median income
$67,500
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
71
37,056 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ESCAMBIA
- J. M. TATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,169 students
- WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,676 students
- PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,604 students
- WEST FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL/TECHNICALHigh · 1,322 students
- PENSACOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,221 students
- RANSOM MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,180 students
Other schools in PENSACOLA
- WASHINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,676 students
- PINE FOREST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,604 students
- WEST FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL/TECHNICALHigh · 1,322 students
- PENSACOLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,221 students
- BEULAH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,070 students
- JIM C. BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 948 students
Nearby schools
- MYRTLE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 435
- SHERWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 452
- CAPSTONE ACADEMY0.9 mi · 26
- WEST PENSACOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 485
- ESCAMBIA BOYS' BASE1.6 mi · 27
- WARRINGTON PREPARATORY ACADEMY2.2 mi · 559
Frequently asked questions
About ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOLHow large is ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL?
ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,634 students in grades 09-12.
Is ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 21.5:1 (76 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 37% White, 10% Hispanic, 39% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL?
ESCAMBIA HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by ESCAMBIA in Escambia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.