ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH

As a well-populated high school in PORT ST LUCIE, Florida, ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH instructs 2,914 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within ST. LUCIE. That puts it 182% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.

ST. LUCIE comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 49,308 students; ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH is among them.

On demographics, ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 34%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 34% Black, 26% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 115 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.6%.

In the surrounding community, census data for St. Lucie County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,457 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, St. Lucie County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,809 students), of which ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is ST. LUCIE WEST K-8 SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ST. LUCIE WEST CENTENNIAL HIGH comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 14%: 2,551 students in 2018 compared to 2,914 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 25.3:1 today.

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