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Enrollment
546
High
DISTRICT 923 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156001664
RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE
12611 86TH AVE, SEMINOLE, FL 33776 · (727) 545-6405 · Pinellas County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL546 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of Florida public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public high schools
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.4:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
195 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 167 | 31% |
| Grade 10 | 131 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 142 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 106 | 19% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
67.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +14.5pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +25.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 25 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.5% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.1% | 16.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
58.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE
RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE's state test result (58.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE this school | 546 | 35.7% | 58.1% |
| Q.I. ROBERTS JR. - SR. HIGH SCHOOL FLORAHOME | 537 | 35.2% | 85.2% |
| PORT ST. JOE HIGH SCHOOL PORT ST JOE | 575 | 37.6% | 53.6% |
| WENDELL KRINN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 765 | 37.5% | 70.4% |
| FREEPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL FREEPORT | 677 | 39.3% | 73.9% |
| SUNCOAST POLYTECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL SARASOTA | 556 | 31.5% | 88.0% |
Matched among Florida high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #198 of 555 | #6 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #273 of 549 ▲ 243 | #7 of 18 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #143 of 559 ▲ 108 | #6 of 19 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 546 | #478 of 830 | #17 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.0:1 | #210 of 575 | #11 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.3% | #384 of 594 | #16 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.7% | #418 of 630 | #15 of 24 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
546
+94 (+21%) vs 2020
+535% since 2000-01, when it was 86
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
was 20.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 546 | 26 | 21.0:1 | 36% (195) |
| 2023-24 | 553 | 27 | 20.5:1 | 41% (228) |
| 2022-23 | 578 | 24 | 24.1:1 | 45% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 452 | 22 | 20.6:1 | 36% (162) |
| 2000-01 | 86 | 15 | 5.7:1 | 12% (10) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE.
About RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE
RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE is a small high school. Its address is in SEMINOLE, Florida. The school counts 546 students across grades 9 through 12. The school's enrollment is 47% smaller than the 1,035 average for high schools in Florida.
The PINELLAS system has 151 schools and 87,955 students.
A majority of students at RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE, 66%, are White. The next largest groups are 19% Hispanic, 9% Black, and 3% multiracial. By the diversity index, RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE comes in at 51%.
With 26 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE was 21.0:1. The 23.5:1 average for high schools in Florida is higher than this school's figure. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 36%. Across public schools in Pinellas County, the average is 45%.
allk12 grades RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE a B. The grade compares the school only with Florida public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE, the prediction is 63.3% and the result is 58.1%.
Within Pinellas County, median household income is about $72,646, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 155 public schools in Pinellas County, with a combined enrollment of about 87,955.
BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.1 miles away in a straight line. RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 67.3% proficiency; RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE posts 58.1%.
In the federal locale system, RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 21%, from 452 to 546.
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Pinellas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
963,481
Census ACS
Median income
$72,646
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
87,955 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in SEMINOLE
- OSCEOLA FUNDAMENTAL HIGHHigh · 1,706 students
- SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,394 students
- OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 933 students
- SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 752 students
- STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 580 students
- BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 530 students
Nearby schools
- BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 530
- SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 752
- SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,394
- OAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 677
- SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 371
- ORANGE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 405
Frequently asked questions
About RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLEHow many students attend RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE?
RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE enrolls approximately 546 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE serve?
RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE?
Approximately 21.0:1 students per teacher at RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE.
How diverse is RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE?
RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE reports a student body of 66% White, 19% Hispanic, 9% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE in?
RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE is part of PINELLAS.
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