ATHENIAN ACADEMY

ATHENIAN ACADEMY is a primary school of close-knit scale in CLEARWATER, Florida, one of the schools within PINELLAS, serveing 377 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 38% below typical.

Across the 151 schools in PINELLAS (87,955 students total), ATHENIAN ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ATHENIAN ACADEMY lists that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 34% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

In terms of school funding signals, ATHENIAN ACADEMY reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at ATHENIAN ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ATHENIAN ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.8%, the actual is 49.6%, a residual of -11.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Pinellas County put the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which ATHENIAN ACADEMY is one.

ACADEMIE DA VINCI CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ATHENIAN ACADEMY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. ATHENIAN ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. ATHENIAN ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 507 (now 377). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 19% to 34%.

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