TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL

As an average-sized high school in FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL hosts 956 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by ST. LUCIE.

ST. LUCIE comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 49,308 students; TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL shows that 39% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% White, 24% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL records 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than St. Lucie County's rate of about 57%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 62.9%; TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL posts 48.1%, -14.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for St. Lucie County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,457, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Lucie County's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,809 students), TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT TRADITION is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.

The school occupies a rural site. TRADITION PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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