HOLMES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL

HOLMES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, a tight-knit 9-12 campus in BONIFAY, Florida, one of the schools within HOLMES, enrolls 464 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% smaller than the state mean of about 1,035.

HOLMES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 8 schools operated by HOLMES, a district that hosts 3,013 students overall.

Demographically, HOLMES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Beyond that, the school logs 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HOLMES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.4%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of -8.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Holmes County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $49,343 per year, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Holmes County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,013 students), HOLMES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BONIFAY K-8 SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HOLMES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOLMES COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL has ticked down 8%, going from 502 students in 2018 to 464 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 6% to 2%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.