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Gibbs High School

850 34th Street, S, St. Petersburg, FL, 33711-2208 -

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Definition of Terms

Gibbs High School

School Level

High school

School Type

Magnet School

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Pinellas County, FL

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2315 students

% Male / % Female

46% / 54%

Total Classroom Teachers

127 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 791 students

Grade 10 - 568 students

Grade 11 - 516 students

Grade 12 - 440 students

This School

( FL ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:18

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

( FL ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	5%	2%
% Hispanic	7%	22%
% Black	40%	28%
% White	48%	47%

Additional Student Information

This School

( FL ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

33%

42%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

( FL ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Pinellas County School District

This School's Agency

( FL ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	173	20
Number of Students Managed	120,929 students	12,279 students
District Total Revenue	$956,195,000	$110,828,000
District Expenditure	$948,950,000	$112,427,000
District Revenue / Student	$7,907	$7,795
District Expenditure / Student	$7,847	$7,471
District Graduation Rates	72%	81%

Gibbs High School is a public high school of the Pinellas County School District serving in St. Petersburg, Florida. Gibbs is home to the Pinellas County Center for the Arts (PCCA) and Business, Economics, and Technology Academy (BETA). Gibbs' current principal is Antelia Campbell.
History: Before 1928, Pinellas County had no school for blacks that educated past 6th grade. Families wishing for higher education had to enroll in private, mostly church-run black schools. Even though there was increasing demand for black secondary school, the School Board began construction on an additional white-only elementary school for $49,490. However, expansion slowed due to economic trouble, and the school became the 34th Street Colored School. In 1970, public schools in Florida were finally truly integrated, and whites began attending Gibbs. Gibbs, however, was still primarily black. To assist their integration goals, the district approved the creation of a magnet program at Gibbs, the Pinellas County Center for the Arts, that would instruct those with artistic gifts. In 2004, Gibbs High School was included in the federal grant received by Pinellas County Schools for the establishment of small learning communities (SLCs). Today, the high school is host to smaller learning communities that have curriculum pathways in Communication Arts, Travel & Tourism, Global Studies and a freshmen Renaissance program. The Pinellas County Center for the Arts program offers high class and one on one training with students in varied art fields. The fields range from Theater to music (vocal and instrumental), Technical theater to Visual Arts as well as Dance. Today, the school named for the first black secretary of state in Florida is the largest high school in Pinellas County with over 2500 students. It now also has a brand new campus and state of the art facilities that opened to the students in the 2005-2006 school year.
Notable alumni:
James Meredith: The first African American to be enrolled at the University of Mississippi graduated from Gibbs High School.
Shaun King: He was a Consensus All-America pick as a prep quarterback at Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg. Though heavily recruited as a prep football star, chose Tulane for challenge of helping to revive a losing program. A five-year veteran, King owns a 14�8 record as a starter and guided the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an appearance in the NFC Championship game following the 1999 season.
Michelle Dowdy: She is the first Broadway performer PCCA has ever produced. She graduated in the 2004-2005 year as a Musical Theatre major in the Theatre department of PCCA, and after a call-back for an audition she had in January of 2005, she found out in the middle of the JFK International Airport in New York, the day of her PCCA commencement, that she was the new understudy for the leading role of Tracy Turnblad in the Broadway musical "Hairspray."
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About This Zip Code (33711)

School Zip (33711)

(FL) State Average

Population (Approximate)	19,915 people	15,366,089 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree	26%	27%
Population Average Age	35 years old	38.7 years old
Average Household size	2.5 persons	2.3 persons
Median Household Income	$31,272	$38,451
Avg. # of Rooms in Household	4.9 rooms	5.0 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure	42 years old	32 years old
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% Owning / % Renting	69% / 31%	67% / 33%

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1. Boca Ciega High School - 1937 students - view location
2. Lakewood High School - 1759 students - view location
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5. St. Petersburg Collegiate High School - 159 students - view location
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