ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL

ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL operates as a high-enrollment high school in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, operated by PINELLAS. Current enrollment sits at 1,736 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 68% above the state mean of about 1,035.

PINELLAS comprises 151 schools with combined enrollment of 87,955 students; ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 18% Hispanic, 17% Black, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL has 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Pinellas County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.5%, the actual is 53.0%, a residual of -10.5 points.

Around the school, Pinellas County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,646, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WOODLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 1,901 (now 1,736). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 11% to 18%.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.