# FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120138001351`
- **School name**: FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: FORT WALTON BEACH, FL 32548
- **Address**: 400 HOLLYWOOD BLVD SW
- **District**: OKALOOSA (LEAID `1201380`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 30.41163, -86.64052
- **Phone**: (850)833-3300
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5472235 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Walton_Beach_High_School
- **Founded**: 1935

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,550
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 71
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.3%

## 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**: 89.0%
- **2021**: 95.0% (cohort of 414)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 420

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.9% (323 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.5% (226 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 81
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 11.8%
- **Black/African American**: 3.2%
- **Asian**: 14.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 59.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 10.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 39.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.2% — 237 students
- **English Learners**: 4.9% — 76 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 80 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 45 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 38 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,080
- **Federal share**: $226
- **State + local share**: $9,853
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,753,989
- **Federal share**: 19.6%
- **State share**: 37.4%
- **Local share**: 43.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,747,155

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $74,192
- **Poverty rate**: 5.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,447
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 30.6 miles (WHITING FIELD NAVAL AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.37 miles (LOVEJOY COMMUNITY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OKALOOSA CO.WTR.; SWR.SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **NORTHWEST FLORIDA BALLET ACADEMIE** — 2.2 mi away, 90.5% (this school: 59%)
- **LIZA JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 59%)
- **CLIFFORD MEIGS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 62% (this school: 59%)
- **FLOROSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 59%)
- **EGLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.9 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 59%)

### graduation rate
- **CHOCTAWHATCHEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 91% (this school: 89%)
- **NICEVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 12.3 mi away, 97% (this school: 89%)
- **COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL AT NORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE** — 13.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 89%)
- **NAVARRE HIGH SCHOOL** — 13.2 mi away, 95% (this school: 89%)

### math proficiency
- **MAX BRUNER JUNIOR MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 53%)
- **MARY ESTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 59% (this school: 53%)
- **NORTHWEST FLORIDA BALLET ACADEMIE** — 2.2 mi away, 97% (this school: 53%)
- **ELLIOTT POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 55% (this school: 53%)
- **W. C. PRYOR MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 64% (this school: 53%)

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