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ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE STEM HIGH SCHOOL → ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL → PINELLAS GULF COAST ACADEMY → LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY → BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL → NINA HARRIS ESE CENTER → PINELLAS MYCROSCHOOL OF INTEGRATED ACADEMICS AND TECHNOLOGI → DROPOUT PREVENTION SCHOOL →For Parents
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Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
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.
Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
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Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2021 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -1.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 206 students:
≈ 12 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $12,525 per student in district revenue, the 12 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $150,300/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Most similar nearby high schools
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE STEM HIGH SCHOOL ST. PETERBURG |
Public · charter | 7.1 | 220 | +279.3% |
| ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG |
Public · charter | 3.8 | 260 | +8.3% |
| PINELLAS GULF COAST ACADEMY CLEARWATER |
Public | 9.6 | 202 | -9.4% |
| LEALMAN INNOVATION ACADEMY ST PETERSBURG |
Public | 3.7 | 135 | -36.6% |
| BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL CLEARWATER |
Public | 5.2 | 139 | -20.1% |
| NINA HARRIS ESE CENTER PINELLAS PARK |
Public | 0.7 | 99 | -5.7% |
| PINELLAS MYCROSCHOOL OF INTEGRATED ACADEMICS AND TECHNOLOGI ST PETERSBURG |
Public · charter | 9.4 | 147 | +5.0% |
| DROPOUT PREVENTION SCHOOL LARGO |
Public | 6.8 | 336 | -23.5% |