Other / mixed grade configuration · Gainesville, FL

Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center

Federal NCES profile for Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators.

2024-25 NCES dataOther / mixed grade configurationNCES 120003010620
32 students enrolled

School address

Enrollment

32

Florida · 2024-25 NCES data

Free-lunch eligible

43.8%

vs 52.0% Florida avg

-16% vs state

What stands out at Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center

Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center is a small combined-grade school in Gainesville, Florida, enrolling 32 students.

Economic need runs somewhat below the state's typical profile, with 43.8% of students eligible for free meals.

This is a small campus: fewer students than 94% of Florida schools, with 32 enrolled.

Its district draws 19.4% of revenue from federal sources, an above-typical federal share that tends to track a higher-need student population.

Alachua also operates F. W. Buchholz High School (2,416 students) and Gainesville High School (1,825 students) alongside Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center.

Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25

How Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center compares

Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center on the metrics families compare, against Florida and U.S. means.

Metric This school vs Florida Florida avg U.S. avg
Free-lunch eligible 43.8% ▼ 16% 52.0% 51.7%
Enrollment 32 top 94% - -

Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25

32
Bigger than 4% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.

Equity indicators (what these measure)

Economic need
43.8%
free-lunch eligible - 16% below the Florida average of 52.0%
Above the 40% Title I schoolwide threshold; federal funds support the whole school, not individual students.
Funding equity
$10,805
per pupil, district-wide - below Florida avg of $11,167
Well below the U.S. average per-pupil spend, a notably leaner funding position that may affect programs, facilities, and staffing.

Overview

  • Common Core of Data (June 2026): enrollment, staffing, and the student-teacher ratio above.
  • Civil Rights Data Collection: discipline counts and program access (AP, gifted, special education).
  • F-33 School District Finance Survey: the district-wide per-pupil spending figures below.

Three separate federal collections, each on its own reporting cadence - which is why this school's numbers line up on a consistent basis against every other school and state on this site, rather than mixing figures pulled from different survey years.

Funding & spending

District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Alachua, which includes Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center.

$10,805
Per student
-3%
vs Florida
Avg $11,167
-35%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 44.3%
State 36.3%
Federal 19.4%

Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2021-22 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.

How Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center Compares to District-Mates

School Enrollment Economic Profile Student-Teacher Ratio
F. W. Buchholz High School Larger Lower economic need No ratio data
Gainesville High School Larger Similar economic need No ratio data
Eastside High School Larger Similar economic need No ratio data
Santa Fe High School Larger Similar economic need No ratio data
Kanapaha Middle School Larger Similar economic need No ratio data

Comparisons are relative to Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data.

Other Schools in This District

Alachua · 5 sibling schools

View district profile

Similar other schools statewide

Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of Florida, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.

Next steps

Verify locally before acting on Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center's federal record.

Federal record (CCD 2024-25, CRDC 2021-22) - PlainSchools assigns no subjective rating; the composite quality score is a transparent, reproducible index computed from this cited federal data.

Frequently asked questions about Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center

How many students attend Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center?

Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center has 32 students enrolled. It is an alternative school in Gainesville, FL.

What percentage of students receive free lunch at Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center?

43.8% of students at Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center are eligible for free lunch, compared to the Florida average of 52.0%.

What other schools are in Alachua?

Besides Alachua Regional Juevnile Detention Center, Alachua also operates F. W. Buchholz High School (2,416 students), Gainesville High School (1,825 students), and Eastside High School (1,291 students). See the Alachua district page for the complete list.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) CCD + Public School Universe (2024-25), CRDC (2021-22), F-33 District Finance Survey (FY 2021-22) · 2024-25 Data as of the 2024-25 school year. Coverage from U.S. Department of Education NCES Common Core of Data. Varies by entity type; administrative districts and certain charter networks may report only a subset of fields.

All federal data sources used on this page

Full source list and how we compute each figure: methodology page.

Every figure on PlainSchools is rendered directly from the source NCES, CRDC and F-33 federal records, no number is typed in by an editor. Each school's figures reflect its most recent NCES/CRDC submission on file. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of June 2026.