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BAUDER 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 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in SEMINOLE, Florida, one of the schools within PINELLAS, instructing 530 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Within PINELLAS, which oversees 151 schools and 87,955 students, BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On demographics, BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 78% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian.
Looking at the economic backdrop, BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 28% of students at BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.
After controlling for student poverty, BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 67.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.7%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Pinellas County put median household earnings sit near $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 BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
RICHARD O JACOBSON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL AT SEMINOLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 64.7%.
BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BAUDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 31%, going from 773 students in 2018 to 530 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 12% across the same window.
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