PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH

PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH operates as a high-enrollment 9-12 campus in PALM HARBOR, Florida, run under PINELLAS. Current enrollment sits at 2,413 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 133% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.

PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH is one of 151 schools operated by PINELLAS, a district that hosts 87,955 students overall.

Looking at the student body, PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH shows that White students make up the majority at 75%. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 114 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.4%, the actual is 72.2%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Pinellas County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH is one of 155 public schools in Pinellas County (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students).

Nearest neighbor: ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 76.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH has shrank 5%, going from 2,546 students in 2018 to 2,413 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 today.

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