Static home page ignored

I’m interpreting that the static page you intend to show is a static page for the home page of your site. If that’s the case, and the static page is truly static, I recommend saving the page as index.html and saving it (via ftp) right next to your WP index.php file in the root folder of your domain.

The .html file will be served up before the .php file, always, and boom now you’ve got a static home page.