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CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the tight-knit elementary-level communitys in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, run under PINELLAS, with 502 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 151 schools operated by PINELLAS, a district that caters to 87,955 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (84%) are Black; the rest consists of 5% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 10% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pinellas County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.3%, the actual is 49.0%, a residual of +8.7 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Pinellas County) logs that median household income runs about $72,646, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 155 public schools in Pinellas County (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students).
Nearest neighbor: JOHN HOPKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 62.1%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 575 students in 2018 compared to 502 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.
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