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HERNANDO

Brooksville, Florida · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

23,734
Students enrolled
32
Public schools
1,338
Classroom teachers (FTE)
17.7:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 547
  • Kindergarten 1,584
  • Grade 1 1,614
  • Grade 2 1,704
  • Grade 3 1,898
  • Grade 4 1,797
  • Grade 5 1,670
  • Grade 6 1,830
  • Grade 7 1,754
  • Grade 8 1,904
  • Grade 9 1,869
  • Grade 10 1,933
  • Grade 11 1,873
  • Grade 12 1,757

By race/ethnicity

  • White 54%
  • Hispanic/Latino 29%
  • Black or African American 8%
  • Two or more races 6%
  • Asian 1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

53% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 12,684 of 23,729 students in the 28 of its 29 schools that report
  • Free lunch 49%
  • Reduced-price lunch 5%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$11,535 spent per student on day-to-day operations Florida median: $12,447 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $6,449
  • Support services $4,382
  • Other (food service, etc.) $704

Where the money comes from

  • Local 44%
  • State 40%
  • Federal 16%

Total revenue $348.3 milliontotal spending $330.6 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: MidsizeStudents: 56% suburb, 35% rural, 9% town

Total staff (FTE)

3,037

District office

919 N BROAD ST, Brooksville FL 34601

County

Hernando County

Official website

NCES District ID

1200810

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About HERNANDO

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The mission of the Hernando County School District is to provide quality education in a safe environment for the youth of our community. We recognize that this will foster their growth physically, socially, and academically. We provide the opportunity for life long learning for all our citizens so that all may compete and flourish in a modern, global economy. Students are our primary concern and very reason for our existence, however, we are also sensitive to the needs of others such as parents, the community and all employees of Hernando County Schools.
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