TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL

Set in TARPON SPRINGS, Florida, TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is a moderately sized 9-12 campus, one of the schools within PINELLAS. It instructs 1,111 students across grades 9 through 12.

Within PINELLAS, which oversees 151 schools and 87,955 students, TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 21% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Pinellas County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.0%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of -10.0 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Pinellas County) records that the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is one.

SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 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. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 59.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 1,398 (now 1,111). The White share of enrollment fell from 72% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

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