POPLAR SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 3726 ATOMIC DR, in GRACEVILLE, Florida, POPLAR SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is a mid-sized unified-grade school that educates 415 students (grades pre-K through 12), one of the schools within HOLMES.

Across the 8 schools in HOLMES (3,013 students total), POPLAR SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, POPLAR SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, POPLAR SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 48.5%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Holmes County put the typical household earns roughly $49,343 per year, about 13% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. POPLAR SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is one of 10 public schools in Holmes County (combined enrollment of about 3,013 students).

The closest other public school is GRACEVILLE SCHOOL, roughly 4.2 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts POPLAR SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 38.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. POPLAR SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 9% since 2018, when it stood at 379 (now 415). White enrollment moved from 94% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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