Public school / High
South Sumter High School
Bushnell, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120180001942
- District
- Sumter
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
South Sumter High School is a public high school in Bushnell, Florida, run by Sumter. It enrols 1,045 students — the 7870th 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
1,045
Teachers
55.0
Students per teacher
19.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
52.5%
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 Sumter
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.
- 1Villages Charter School3,473 students
- 2South Sumter High School1,045 students
- 3Wildwood Elementary School940 students
- 4South Sumter Middle School897 students
- 5Wildwood Middle/ High School843 students
- 6Bushnell Elementary School760 students
- 7Webster Elementary School748 students
- 8Lake Panasoffkee Elementary School584 students
- Enrollment+70.2%
- Teachers+44.7%
- Students per teacher+12.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−8.9%
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