Public school / High
Performance Based Preparatory Academy
Fort Pierce, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120177001079
- District
- St. Lucie
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Performance Based Preparatory Academy is a public high school in Fort Pierce, Florida, run by St. Lucie. It enrols 139 students — the 83850th 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
139
Teachers
9.0
Students per teacher
15.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
75.5%
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 St. Lucie
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.
- 1Fort Pierce Central High School3,091 students
- 2Treasure Coast High School3,066 students
- 3St. Lucie West Centennial High2,766 students
- 4Fort Pierce Westwood Academy the W.E.S.T. Prep Magnet2,010 students
- 5Port St. Lucie High School1,748 students
- 6Manatee Academy K-81,664 students
- 7Oak Hammock K-8 School1,633 students
- 8St. Lucie West K-8 School1,601 students
- Enrollment−77.4%
- Teachers−76.3%
- Students per teacher−8.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+31.1%
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