BEAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BEAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a minimally staffed K-5 school in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, part of PINELLAS. Current enrollment sits at 237 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so BEAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 61% smaller than that benchmark.

BEAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 151 schools operated by PINELLAS, a district that works with 87,955 students overall.

Looking at the student body, BEAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 20% White, 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Pinellas County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BEAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.6%, the actual is 54.2%, a residual of +9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pinellas County put the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which BEAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BEAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BEAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 38%, going from 381 students in 2018 to 237 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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