# PINELLAS GULF COAST ACADEMY

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/pinellas-gulf-coast-academy-clearwater

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156008410`
- **School name**: PINELLAS GULF COAST ACADEMY
- **Location**: CLEARWATER, FL 33765
- **Address**: 2235 NE COACHMAN RD
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 27.97215, -82.74413
- **Phone**: (727)474-8836

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 202
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 14
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 55.0%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 52.0% (cohort of 172)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 76

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 120.8% (273 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.3% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 9.5% (30 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 138.0% (436 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 22.0%
- **Black/African American**: 1.8%
- **Asian**: 18.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 51.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.2% — 26 students
- **English Learners**: 5.1% — 16 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,307
- **Federal share**: $1,339
- **State + local share**: $14,968
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,667,582
- **Federal share**: 18.3%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 56.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,792,259

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,140
- **Poverty rate**: 18.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.3%
- **Unemployment**: 4.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,514
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.6 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.62 miles (CITY OF CLEARWATER PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PINELLAS COUNTY UTILITIES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10203 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HOSPITAL/HOMEBOUND** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.33%)
- **PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.33%)
- **SKYCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 2.02% (this school: 6.33%)
- **CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 1.71% (this school: 6.33%)
- **CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.33%)

### graduation rate
- **CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 98% (this school: 52%)
- **ENTERPRISE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 69% (this school: 52%)
- **COUNTRYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 96% (this school: 52%)
- **DUNEDIN HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 52%)
- **LARGO HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.4 mi away, 96% (this school: 52%)

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