AZALEA MIDDLE SCHOOL

AZALEA MIDDLE SCHOOL is a moderately sized middle school in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, run under PINELLAS. The school teaches 696 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within PINELLAS, which oversees 151 schools and 87,955 students, AZALEA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, AZALEA MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 46% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 29% White, 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting AZALEA MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 63% of students at AZALEA MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.

After controlling for student poverty, AZALEA MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of -9.7 points.

Across the wider county, Pinellas County reports that median household income runs about $72,646, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which AZALEA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

AZALEA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts AZALEA MIDDLE SCHOOL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 942 students in 2018 compared to 696 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 34% to 29%. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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