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SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL
SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized 9-12 campus in LIVE OAK, Florida, one of the schools within SUWANNEE. Current enrollment sits at 1,167 students spanning grades 9 through 12.
Within SUWANNEE, which oversees 10 schools and 6,004 students, SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL lists that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 29% Hispanic, 16% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Suwannee County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Suwannee County's rate of about 56%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.4%; this one delivers 46.2%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Suwannee County indicate median household earnings sit near $56,658, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Suwannee County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,004 students), SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SUWANNEE VIRTUAL SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SUWANNEE HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 1,224 students in 2018 compared to 1,167 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 18% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 today.
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