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Enrollment
427
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156001604
BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
6400 54TH AVE N, ST PETERSBURG, FL 33709 · (727) 547-7820 · Pinellas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL427 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% 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.
- 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
304 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 39 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
75%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
42.4%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.9pp since 2023
Math
55.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +10.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 42 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 down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.4% | 55.5% |
| 2023-24 | 47.3% | 44.8% |
% 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
51.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (51.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 427 | 71.2% | 51.0% |
| PINELLAS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINELLAS PARK | 435 | 72.4% | 31.2% |
| MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEM PINELLAS PARK | 433 | 67.0% | 56.7% |
| PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINELLAS PARK | 483 | 63.1% | 57.2% |
| SKYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINELLAS PARK | 564 | 64.0% | 53.0% |
| NEW HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG | 666 | 72.1% | 50.2% |
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 BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,292 of 2,136 | #75 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.5% | #1,305 of 2,149 ▲ 324 | #73 of 90 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.4% | #1,680 of 2,149 ▼ 382 | #86 of 90 ▼ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 427 | #1,691 of 2,267 | #58 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #84 of 2,077 | #21 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.9% | #18 of 2,108 | #3 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.2% | #411 of 2,188 | #20 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.2% | #378 of 1,374 | #26 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
427
-67 (-14%) vs 2020
-51% since 1990-91, when it was 867
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 427 | 34 | 12.6:1 | 71% (304) |
| 2023-24 | 456 | 35 | 13.0:1 | 73% (334) |
| 2022-23 | 500 | 39 | 12.8:1 | 78% (388) |
| 2020-21 | 494 | 36 | 13.7:1 | 74% (366) |
| 2017-18 | 556 | 47 | 11.8:1 | 76% (424) |
| 2015-16 | 549 | 42 | 13.1:1 | 70% (387) |
| 2010-11 | 532 | 44 | 12.1:1 | 82% (435) |
| 2000-01 | 894 | 58 | 15.4:1 | 70% (630) |
| 1990-91 | 867 | 44 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school found in ST PETERSBURG, Florida. It enrolled 427 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average about 604 students each.
PINELLAS operates 151 schools. Combined enrollment is 87,955 students.
White students are the largest group at BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 34% of enrollment. The next largest groups are 28% Hispanic, 19% Black, 12% Asian, and 7% multiracial. The school's White share is 39 points below the 74% share among Pinellas County residents. By the diversity index, BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 75%.
The school has about 12.6 students per teacher and 34 full-time-equivalent teachers. That ratio is under the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 71%. The rate at public schools in Pinellas County averages 45%, lower than here.
allk12 grades BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a B-. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 5.5 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (51.0% versus 45.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Pinellas County, where median household income is about $72,646, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 155 public schools in Pinellas County, with a combined enrollment of about 87,955.
The closest public school, DIXIE M. HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOL, is about 0.3 miles from BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 5th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES assigns BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students declined from 494 to 427 over 4 years. Students per teacher fell from 13.7 in 2020-21 to 12.6 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
Other Blanton Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 2 states are named Blanton Elementary. BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 6th largest of the 6.
- Blanton Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 748 students
- Blanton Elementary SchoolODESSA, TX · 510 students
- Blanton Elementary SchoolCARROLLTON, TX · 503 students
- Blanton Elementary SchoolLANTANA, TX · 470 students
- Blanton Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 456 students
Nearby schools
- DIXIE M. HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,934
- MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEM0.9 mi · 433
- ESE COUNTYWIDE1.0 mi · 206
- PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG1.0 mi · 374
- NINA HARRIS ESE CENTER1.1 mi · 160
- PINELLAS PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 999
Frequently asked questions
About BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 427 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 12.6:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 34% White, 28% Hispanic, 19% Black, 12% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PINELLAS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.