Summary:
In zip code 33762, there is a single high school, Bayside High School, a very small school serving 139 students in grades 9-12 in Clearwater, Florida, within the Pinellas County school district.
Bayside High School is in a severe academic crisis, ranking in the bottom 2% of all Florida high schools (823 out of 838) for the 2025-2026 school year. The most critical issue is a catastrophic chronic absenteeism rate of 84.8%, nearly three times the district and state averages. This directly explains why academic proficiency is in the single digits across all subjects—for example, 0% of 9th graders were proficient in English Language Arts. Despite spending a very high $25,596 per student and maintaining a low student-teacher ratio of 9.9:1, the school's average proficiency across all tested subjects is just 5.8%. The graduation rate of 86.7% is misleadingly high compared to these test scores, suggesting that a diploma from this school may not reflect the same level of academic readiness as one from a typical Florida high school.
While the overall picture is dire, there is a slight glimmer of hope in a few subjects showing marginal improvement, such as US History proficiency rising from 11% to 13% and Geometry from 2% to 7% over the past year. However, these gains are extremely small. The school serves a high-poverty population, with 64% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch. Any meaningful improvement will require a comprehensive, non-academic intervention focused first on solving the attendance crisis before academic progress can be expected.
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