OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL

OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, an one-room-style high school in OCALA, Florida, part of MARION, hosts 116 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 89% leaner than the state mean of about 1,035.

Within MARION, which oversees 62 schools and 46,349 students, OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 25% Hispanic, 21% Black, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 53.5%; OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL posts 34.7%, -18.9 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Marion County put the typical household earns roughly $61,010 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Marion County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,349 students), OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FORDHAM EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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