Public school / High
Hardee Junior High School
Wauchula, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120075000878
- District
- Hardee
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Hardee Junior High School is a public high school in Wauchula, Florida, run by Hardee. It enrols 1,141 students — the 6538th 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
1,141
Teachers
62.0
Students per teacher
18.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
74.2%
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 Hardee
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.
- 1Hardee Senior High School1,403 students
- 2Hardee Junior High School1,141 students
- 3Wauchula Elementary School616 students
- 4Zolfo Springs Elementary School590 students
- 5North Wauchula Elementary School510 students
- 6Bowling Green Elementary School302 students
- 7Hilltop Elementary School286 students
- 8Pioneer Career Academy29 students
- Enrollment+85.8%
- Teachers+63.2%
- Students per teacher+8.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+28.8%
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