BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 5900 DR MARTIN L KING ST S, in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary campus that enrolls 574 students (grades K through 5), part of PINELLAS.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 39% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Pinellas County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.1%, the actual is 76.4%, a residual of +13.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Pinellas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 649 (now 574). Over the same period, the White share fell from 49% to 41%.

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