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BARDMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BARDMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Located at 8333 MAGNOLIA DR, in SEMINOLE, Florida, BARDMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy primary school that works with 457 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under PINELLAS. Enrollment runs roughly 24% leaner than the state mean of about 604.
Across the 151 schools in PINELLAS (87,955 students total), BARDMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, BARDMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 27% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pinellas County (around 45%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, BARDMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 61.9%, a residual of +8.2 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 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 BARDMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BARDMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 56.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Looking at the recent track record. BARDMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 515 (now 457). Over the same period, the White share fell from 60% to 49%.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for BARDMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Pinellas County at a glance
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