CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier elementary campuss in PALM HARBOR, Florida, one of the schools within PINELLAS, with 610 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school shows 20% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.

After controlling for student poverty, CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.8%, the actual is 73.6%, a residual of +8.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Pinellas County put median household income runs about $72,646, 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 CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

LAKE ST. GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 66.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CURLEW CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 9%, going from 667 students in 2018 to 610 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 72% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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