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DROPOUT PREVENTION SCHOOL

LARGO · FL · PINELLAS · Public · K-12 combined

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Programs & features
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 44% by test-taker volume
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 2% (Bottom 0% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How DROPOUT PREVENTION SCHOOL compares for families

What families should know about DROPOUT PREVENTION SCHOOL.

  • LocallyFL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

Bottom 44% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
52
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
15.5
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 0% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
2%
Single-point estimate
4-year cohort size
90
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

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.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

47.1%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

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.

Chronic absenteeism

Share of students absent 15+ days
103.5%
Well above the national average (~16%). At this level, chronic absence becomes a leading driver of enrollment loss as families rotate to other schools.
Students absent 15+ days
409
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

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. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 252 in 2021 to 257 in 2024 — over 3 years.
+2.0%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -7.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 395 students:

2025
364
2027
308
2029
261

≈ 134 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 134 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $1,678,350/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.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
STRIVE ACADEMY
LARGO
Public 0.0 4
LARGO HIGH SCHOOL
LARGO
Public 0.7 2,050 -1.8%
American Collegiate Academy
Clearwater
Private 1.4 165
Iva Christian School
Clearwater
Private 2.0 123 -16.9%
Indian Rocks Christian School
Largo
Private 2.5 908 +14.2%
Washburn Academy
Clearwater
Private 3.4 124 -3.1%
Clearwater Academy International
Clearwater
Private 3.7 242 +26.0%
CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL
CLEARWATER
Public 3.9 1,543 -1.3%

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