Public school / High
F. W. Buchholz High School
Gainesville, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120003000029
- District
- Alachua
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
F. W. Buchholz High School is a public high school in Gainesville, Florida, run by Alachua. It enrols 2,540 students — the 714th largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
2,540
Teachers
80.0
Students per teacher
31.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
36.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Alachua
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1F. W. Buchholz High School2,540 students
- 2Gainesville High School1,873 students
- 3Eastside High School1,220 students
- 4Santa Fe High School1,154 students
- 5Kanapaha Middle School1,094 students
- 6High Springs Community School974 students
- 7Oak View Middle School964 students
- 8Fort Clarke Middle School961 students
- Enrollment+313.7%
- Teachers+110.5%
- Students per teacher+88.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−37.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory