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Port St Joe, Florida - 5 schools
An equity score of 69/100 ranks Gulf #9 of 67 districts in Florida (state average 51). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $13,147 per pupil, Gulf ranks #4 of 67 Florida districts by per-pupil spending (Florida districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,928
Total Enrollment
5
Schools
$13,147
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Gulf operates 5 public schools serving 1,928 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Florida. The school portfolio breaks down into 5 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Gulf County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $13,147 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 7 of 67 Florida districts by per-pupil spending. See how Florida compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 59.5% local, 23.9% state, and 16.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 69/100, ranked #9 of 67 in Florida against a state average of 51, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 469.3:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 48.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 73.0% White, 10.7% African American, 8.2% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Prek Ese, with a diversity index of 63.5/100.
Its largest campus is Port St. Joe High School, enrolling 575 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Prek Ese, at 24 students, a 24x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Port St. Joe High School accounts for 29.8% of all Gulf student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Gulf-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Gulf school enrollment ranges from 24 students (lowest) to 575 students (highest), a spread of 551 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Gulf student-counselor ratio is 469:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Gulf chronic absenteeism rate is 48.1% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.