BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL hosts 427 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within PINELLAS. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 604.

Within PINELLAS, which oversees 151 schools and 87,955 students, BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 34% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 19% Black, 12% Asian, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 71% of students at BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Across the wider county, Pinellas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

DIXIE M. HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BLANTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 23%, going from 556 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 44% to 34%.

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