PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL

As a well-populated high school in LARGO, Florida, PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL works with 1,691 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within PINELLAS. Enrollment runs roughly 63% bigger than the state mean of about 1,035.

PINELLAS comprises 151 schools with combined enrollment of 87,955 students; PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 34% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL has 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 47% of students at PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.5%; this one comes in at 38.1%, -19.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, Pinellas County reports that median household income runs about $72,646, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 1,949 students in 2018 compared to 1,691 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 48% to 38% over that span.

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