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LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL
LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL is one of the well-populated four-year high schools in LAND O LAKES, Florida, run under PASCO, with 2,233 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 116% larger than the state mean of about 1,035.
PASCO runs 105 schools in total, collectively educating 86,873 students. LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL logs that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 27% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 72% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 100 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.3:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Pasco County's rate of about 37%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 72.0%; LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL posts 56.7%, -15.2 points below that line.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Pasco County shows median household earnings sit near $70,492, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pasco County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,873 students), LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LAND O' LAKES HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 67.4%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 21%: 1,847 students in 2018 compared to 2,233 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 59% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.
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