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LEARNING ACADEMY OF SANTA ROSA → HIGH ROAD → PACE PROGRAM → ESCAMBIA JUVENILE DETENTION → ESCAMBIA WESTGATE CENTER → RICHBOURG SCHOOL → COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE ANNEX → OKALOOSA TECHNICAL COLLEGE →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 24% (Bottom 4% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 4% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
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Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
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Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -22.4%/year, projecting from 2022's 66 students:
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The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LEARNING ACADEMY OF SANTA ROSA MILTON |
Public · charter | 3.5 | 27 | — |
| HIGH ROAD MILTON |
Public | 5.5 | 40 | — |
| PACE PROGRAM PENSACOLA |
Public | 11.3 | 32 | — |
| ESCAMBIA JUVENILE DETENTION PENSACOLA |
Public | 14.9 | 41 | — |
| ESCAMBIA WESTGATE CENTER PENSACOLA |
Public | 12.3 | 74 | -15.9% |
| RICHBOURG SCHOOL CRESTVIEW |
Public | 32.0 | 31 | — |
| COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE ANNEX PENSACOLA |
Public | 14.1 | 74 | +0.0% |
| OKALOOSA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FORT WALTON BEACH |
Public | 28.8 | 25 | — |