# CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120081002604`
- **School name**: CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: BROOKSVILLE, FL 34613
- **Address**: 14075 KEN AUSTIN PKWY
- **District**: HERNANDO (LEAID `1200810`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 28.56501, -82.49545
- **Phone**: (352)797-7020
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5061165 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_High_School_(Brooksville,_Florida)

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,444
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 77
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: B

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 86.0%
- **2021**: 91.0% (cohort of 244)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 278

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.2% (200 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (28 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 25.8% (374 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 161
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 24.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.7%
- **Asian**: 7.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 60.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 57.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.0% — 174 students
- **English Learners**: 1.2% — 17 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 82 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 23 students
- **Autism**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 6 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,197
- **Federal share**: $972
- **State + local share**: $9,225
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,301,401
- **Federal share**: 15.1%
- **State share**: 44.9%
- **Local share**: 39.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,514,741

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $59,561
- **Poverty rate**: 14.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 32.4 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.99 miles (LARRY BRICK PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-03-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **WEEKI WACHEE HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.1 mi away, 0.29% (this school: 0.96%)
- **WINDING WATERS K-8** — 4.2 mi away, 0.73% (this school: 0.96%)
- **CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH** — 4.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.96%)
- **POWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 0.66% (this school: 0.96%)
- **CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.96%)

### ela proficiency
- **WEST HERNANDO MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 55% (this school: 49%)
- **PINE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 59% (this school: 49%)
- **SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 53.5% (this school: 49%)
- **WINDING WATERS K-8** — 4.2 mi away, 50.5% (this school: 49%)
- **CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH** — 4.8 mi away, 78% (this school: 49%)

### graduation rate
- **WEEKI WACHEE HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.1 mi away, 87% (this school: 86%)
- **NATURE COAST TECHNICAL HIGH** — 5.6 mi away, 94% (this school: 86%)
- **FRANK W. SPRINGSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 90% (this school: 86%)
- **HERNANDO HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.9 mi away, 89% (this school: 86%)
- **HERNANDO ESCHOOL VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 7.2 mi away, 97% (this school: 86%)

### math proficiency
- **WEST HERNANDO MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 59% (this school: 37%)
- **PINE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 60% (this school: 37%)
- **SPRING HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 55% (this school: 37%)
- **WINDING WATERS K-8** — 4.2 mi away, 54% (this school: 37%)
- **CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH** — 4.8 mi away, 86% (this school: 37%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/central-high-school-brooksville
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/central-high-school-brooksville/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/central-high-school-brooksville/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/central-high-school-brooksville/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/central-high-school-brooksville/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/central-high-school-brooksville/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/central-high-school-brooksville/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/central-high-school-brooksville/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/central-high-school-brooksville/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/central-high-school-brooksville/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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