BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL

BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the cozy middle-grades schools in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, operated by PINELLAS, with 519 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 35% below typical.

PINELLAS runs 151 schools in total, collectively educating 87,955 students. BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 74% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 10% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Pinellas County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Pinellas County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.6%, the actual is 47.2%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Around the school, Pinellas County reports that median household income runs about $72,646, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 155 public schools in Pinellas County (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students).

BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.6%.

BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 48% since 2018, when it stood at 995 (now 519). Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 57% to 74%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.