LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL

LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL is a four-year high school of sprawling scale in WINTER PARK, Florida, overseen by SEMINOLE, instructing 2,241 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 117% above typical.

SEMINOLE runs 74 schools in total, collectively educating 63,934 students. LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL records that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 39% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Seminole County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL has 103 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.7%; this one delivers 53.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Seminole County) logs that median household income runs about $85,761, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Seminole County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,934 students), LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

TUSKAWILLA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 2,252 students in 2018 compared to 2,241 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 50% to 42%. Class-load math has loosened: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the LAKE HOWELL HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.