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SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 65% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL
As a middle-of-the-pack high school in SEMINOLE, Florida, SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL serves 1,394 students from grades 9 through 12, part of PINELLAS. That puts it 35% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.
PINELLAS comprises 151 schools with combined enrollment of 87,955 students; SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
On demographics, SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL reports that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 64.8%; SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL posts 47.9%, -16.9 points below that line.
In the broader community, census data for Pinellas County shows median household income runs about $72,646, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 68.6%.
SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL has shrank 29%, going from 1,951 students in 2018 to 1,394 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 78% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.
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Pinellas County at a glance
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