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Which teacher or staff member at BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
519
Middle
DISTRICT 717 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156001599
BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL
2151 62ND AVE S, ST PETERSBURG, FL 33712 · (727) 724-1442 · Pinellas County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL519 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 44% of Florida public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
348 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 135 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 173 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 211 | 41% |
Student demographics
43%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
44.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
56.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.0pp 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 56 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.3% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 42.0% | 50.0% |
% 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
47.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 MIDDLE SCHOOL
BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (47.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 519 | 67.1% | 47.2% |
| R. FRANK NIMS MIDDLE SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 625 | 71.8% | 43.1% |
| HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL PALM BEACH GARDENS | 705 | 67.1% | 39.3% |
| JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 530 | 70.8% | 35.4% |
| HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 685 | 61.3% | 36.1% |
| LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 748 | 67.9% | 36.0% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.2% | #366 of 560 | #15 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #293 of 560 ▲ 26 | #12 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.3% | #394 of 560 ▼ 31 | #16 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 519 | #466 of 584 | #18 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #109 of 547 | #4 of 20 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.9% | #439 of 553 | #18 of 20 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.1% | #85 of 565 | #1 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -47.8% | #3 of 379 | #1 of 18 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
519
-324 (-38%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 1,086
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 519 | 30 | 17.3:1 | 67% (348) |
| 2023-24 | 655 | 38 | 17.2:1 | 70% (460) |
| 2022-23 | 770 | 39 | 19.7:1 | 69% (533) |
| 2020-21 | 843 | 48 | 17.6:1 | 61% (514) |
| 2017-18 | 995 | 59 | 16.9:1 | 73% (723) |
| 2015-16 | 906 | 59 | 15.4:1 | 57% (518) |
| 2010-11 | 1,222 | 76 | 16.1:1 | 64% (782) |
| 2000-01 | 1,407 | 71 | 19.8:1 | 39% (542) |
| 1990-91 | 1,086 | 60 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL
BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL, a small middle school, is located in ST PETERSBURG, Florida. Enrollment stands at 519 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That is 35% below the average of about 794 students for middle schools in Florida.
PINELLAS is made up of 151 schools with 87,955 students in all.
The student body at BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is 74% Black. Other reported shares: 10% White, 9% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Pinellas County's residents are about 10% Black, 65 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 43% means there is a 43% chance two randomly chosen students at BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
On staff are 30 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 17.3:1. The average for middle schools in Florida is 19.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 67% of students at BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Pinellas County report 45%.
Among Florida public middle schools, BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 44%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is 47.6%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 47.2%.
In the surrounding county, Pinellas County, the median household earns about $72,646 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Pinellas County has 155 public schools with about 87,955 students, including BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL.
BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 56.6% on proficiency, and BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is below that at 47.2%.
The federal government classifies BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL's location as City: Large.
The school shrank from 843 students in 2020-21 to 519 in 2024-25.
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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 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 390
- PINELLAS MYCROSCHOOL OF INTEGRATED ACADEMICS AND TECHNOLOGI0.2 mi · 149
- LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 880
- BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 574
- MAXIMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 339
- LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 446
Frequently asked questions
About BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 519 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 17.3:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 10% White, 9% Hispanic, 74% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is BAY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
BAY POINT MIDDLE 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.