ROSENWALD HIGH SCHOOL

ROSENWALD HIGH SCHOOL is a very small 9-12 campus in PANAMA CITY, Florida, part of BAY. The school hosts 351 students in grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 66% below typical.

Within BAY, which oversees 47 schools and 27,494 students, ROSENWALD HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ROSENWALD HIGH SCHOOL logs that 55% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 26% Black, 13% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, ROSENWALD HIGH SCHOOL records 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting ROSENWALD HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bay County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bay County shows median household earnings sit near $73,533, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bay County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,672 students), of which ROSENWALD HIGH SCHOOL is one.

OSCAR PATTERSON ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 119%: 160 students in 2018 compared to 351 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 44% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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