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Which teacher or staff member at BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156001598
BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5800 22ND ST S, ST PETERSBURG, FL 33712 · (727) 552-1449 · Pinellas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% 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.
- B+Beats 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
12.0:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
288 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
38%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
43.5%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.1pp since 2023
Math
51.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.5% | 51.1% |
| 2023-24 | 47.6% | 54.5% |
% 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
51.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (51.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 390 | 73.8% | 51.7% |
| LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE PARK | 389 | 72.2% | 45.1% |
| EMMA JEWEL CHARTER ACADEMY COCOA | 339 | 77.0% | 38.9% |
| DEERFIELD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DEERFIELD BEACH | 391 | 73.4% | 49.1% |
| SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 366 | 71.3% | 35.1% |
| ASTORIA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 479 | 76.6% | 39.5% |
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 BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.7% | #1,249 of 2,136 | #71 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.1% | #1,504 of 2,149 ▼ 327 | #78 of 90 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.5% | #1,627 of 2,149 ▼ 343 | #83 of 90 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #1,795 of 2,267 | #66 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #51 of 2,077 | #14 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.8% | #1,711 of 2,108 | #82 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.8% | #307 of 2,188 | #12 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.6% | #85 of 1,374 | #6 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
390
-127 (-25%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 534
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
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 | 390 | 32.5 | 12.0:1 | 74% (288) |
| 2023-24 | 401 | 34 | 11.8:1 | 75% (302) |
| 2022-23 | 453 | 36 | 12.6:1 | 78% (354) |
| 2020-21 | 517 | 41 | 12.6:1 | 70% (361) |
| 2017-18 | 625 | 42 | 14.9:1 | 75% (470) |
| 2015-16 | 633 | 44 | 14.4:1 | 56% (357) |
| 2010-11 | 667 | 46 | 14.5:1 | 48% (323) |
| 2000-01 | 722 | 42 | 17.2:1 | 37% (269) |
| 1990-91 | 534 | 26 | 20.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school serving families in ST PETERSBURG, Florida. The latest federal count shows 390 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 604-student average for elementary schools in Florida, enrollment here is 35% lower.
PINELLAS (151 schools, 87,955 students) runs BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Black students make up a majority at BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at 78%. The remaining shares are 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 5% White. Census estimates put the Black share of Pinellas County's population at about 10%. Pick two students at random and there is a 38% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL total 32.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.0:1. That is 5.5 students per teacher below the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 74%. Among public schools in Pinellas County, the average eligibility rate is 45%.
BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 53% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 51.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 44.2%.
Census Bureau estimates for Pinellas County show that the median household income is $72,646, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 155 public schools in the county.
The closest public school, BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles from BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 56.0%; BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 51.7%, ranking 4th of 8.
NCES assigns BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment declined 25% from its 2020-21 level of 517.
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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
- LARGO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,058 students
- 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 ST PETERSBURG
- ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,736 students
- NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,684 students
- GIBBS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,125 students
- LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 880 students
- JAMES B. SANDERLIN K-8Elementary · 817 students
- TYRONE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 799 students
Nearby schools
- BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 519
- PINELLAS MYCROSCHOOL OF INTEGRATED ACADEMICS AND TECHNOLOGI0.4 mi · 149
- LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 880
- MAXIMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 339
- BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 574
- LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 446
Frequently asked questions
About BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 390 students in grades PK-05.
Is BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.0:1.
What is the student diversity at BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 5% White, 8% Hispanic, 78% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PINELLAS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.