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Enrollment
377
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156004433
ATHENIAN ACADEMY
2289 N HERCULES AVE, CLEARWATER, FL 33763 · (727) 298-2718 · Pinellas County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL377 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
153 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 36 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 14% larger than its 8th grade class (36).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
54.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.3% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.3% | 42.4% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ATHENIAN ACADEMY
ATHENIAN ACADEMY's state test result (49.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATHENIAN ACADEMY this school | 377 | 40.6% | 49.6% |
| GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INTERCOASTAL JACKSONVILLE | 433 | 45.5% | 60.3% |
| ATHENIAN ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS NEW PORT RICHEY | 404 | 46.0% | 80.9% |
| PLATO ACADEMY TRINITY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 489 | 41.1% | 53.1% |
| OLDSMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OLDSMAR | 473 | 39.1% | 70.7% |
| DEERWOOD ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 472 | 40.3% | 67.1% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ATHENIAN ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #1,352 of 2,136 | #77 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,609 of 2,149 ▲ 128 | #81 of 90 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #1,093 of 2,149 ▲ 65 | #68 of 90 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 377 | #1,822 of 2,267 | #67 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #145 of 2,077 | #33 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #705 of 2,108 | #43 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.6% | #1,564 of 2,188 | #53 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.6% | #311 of 1,374 | #21 of 75 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
377
-88 (-19%) vs 2020
+1078% since 2000-01, when it was 32
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 12.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 377 | 29 | 13.0:1 | 41% (153) |
| 2023-24 | 418 | 34 | 12.3:1 | 51% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 413 | 33 | 12.5:1 | 54% (225) |
| 2020-21 | 465 | 37 | 12.6:1 | 45% (207) |
| 2017-18 | 507 | 41 | 12.4:1 | 43% (218) |
| 2015-16 | 402 | 30 | 13.4:1 | 43% (171) |
| 2010-11 | 228 | 28 | 8.1:1 | 43% (97) |
| 2000-01 | 32 | N/A | N/A | 13% (4) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ATHENIAN ACADEMY.
About ATHENIAN ACADEMY
ATHENIAN ACADEMY is an elementary school located in CLEARWATER, Florida, in Pinellas County. Its 377 students are spread across kindergarten through 8. The typical figure for elementary schools in Florida is about 604 students.
ATHENIAN ACADEMY is in PINELLAS, a district with 87,955 students across 151 schools.
ATHENIAN ACADEMY's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 49%. The remaining students are 34% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among people living in Pinellas County, the White share is about 74%. By the diversity index, ATHENIAN ACADEMY comes in at 63%.
The school employs the equivalent of 29 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 13.0:1. Among elementary schools in Florida, the typical ratio is 17.5:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 41%.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, ATHENIAN ACADEMY receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 49.6%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 60.8%.
Within Pinellas County, median household income is about $72,646, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Federal data list 155 public schools in Pinellas County, with a combined enrollment of about 87,955.
ACADEMIE DA VINCI CHARTER SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 1.1 miles away in a straight line. ATHENIAN ACADEMY is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, ATHENIAN ACADEMY ranks 6th on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, ATHENIAN ACADEMY is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. As a charter school, ATHENIAN ACADEMY is publicly funded and operates under a charter.
ATHENIAN ACADEMY saw enrollment fall 19% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Pinellas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
963,481
Census ACS
Median income
$72,646
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
87,955 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PINELLAS
- PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGHHigh · 2,413 students
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- EAST LAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,980 students
- DIXIE M. HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,934 students
- ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,736 students
- OSCEOLA FUNDAMENTAL HIGHHigh · 1,706 students
Other schools in CLEARWATER
- CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,543 students
- COUNTRYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,396 students
- CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 736 students
- OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 724 students
- DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF SCIENCEElementary · 722 students
- PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 704 students
Nearby schools
- ACADEMIE DA VINCI CHARTER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 336
- ENTERPRISE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 387
- DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 842
- DUNEDIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 474
- CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY1.9 mi · 538
- DUNEDIN HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,221
Frequently asked questions
About ATHENIAN ACADEMYHow large is ATHENIAN ACADEMY?
ATHENIAN ACADEMY enrolls approximately 377 students in grades KG-08.
Is ATHENIAN ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
ATHENIAN ACADEMY is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does ATHENIAN ACADEMY have?
ATHENIAN ACADEMY employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
What is the student diversity at ATHENIAN ACADEMY?
Student demographics at ATHENIAN ACADEMY are roughly 49% White, 34% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is ATHENIAN ACADEMY in?
ATHENIAN ACADEMY is part of PINELLAS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.