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Enrollment
538
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156001658
CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY
531 BELTREES ST, DUNEDIN, FL 34698 · (727) 738-6438 · Pinellas County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL538 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
107 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
43%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
87.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
91.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 91.7% |
| 2023-24 | 83.0% | 90.4% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
86.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 71% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY
CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY's state test result (86.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY this school | 538 | 19.9% | 86.9% |
| SCULPTOR CHARTER SCHOOL TITUSVILLE | 558 | 19.0% | 62.5% |
| LONGLEAF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MELBOURNE | 578 | 23.2% | 75.7% |
| INDIALANTIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INDIALANTIC | 662 | 19.9% | 82.8% |
| ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ATLANTIC BEACH | 482 | 15.4% | 80.5% |
| BESSEY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM CITY | 594 | 22.4% | 76.0% |
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 CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.9% | #40 of 2,136 | #4 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 91.7% | #28 of 2,149 ▲ 7 | #2 of 90 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #31 of 2,149 ▲ 26 | #3 of 90 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 538 | #1,273 of 2,267 | #27 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #859 of 2,077 | #82 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.3% | #1,588 of 2,108 | #74 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.9% | #2,011 of 2,188 | #87 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.4% | #607 of 621 | #13 of 13 |
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
538
+9 (+2%) vs 2020
+53% since 1990-91, when it was 352
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 538 | 35 | 15.4:1 | 20% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 536 | 34 | 15.8:1 | 23% (125) |
| 2022-23 | 536 | 34 | 15.8:1 | 21% (113) |
| 2020-21 | 529 | 34 | 15.6:1 | 15% (78) |
| 2017-18 | 536 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 18% (94) |
| 2015-16 | 536 | 33 | 16.2:1 | 16% (88) |
| 2010-11 | 536 | 32 | 16.8:1 | 13% (67) |
| 2000-01 | 434 | 19 | 22.8:1 | 17% (74) |
| 1990-91 | 352 | 16 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY.
About CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY
CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY is a mid-sized elementary school. Its address is in DUNEDIN, Florida. The school covers kindergarten through 5 and reported 538 students in 2024-25.
PINELLAS has a total of 151 schools and 87,955 students, CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY among them.
Federal enrollment data show CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY is 74% White. Other groups make up 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, and 2% Asian. In Pinellas County overall, the White share is about 74%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 43, compared with 70 nationally.
CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY has a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1, with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. The school has 20% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Pinellas County average 45%.
CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 15.7 points (86.9% versus 71.2%), a top-10% result in Florida on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Pinellas County, median household income comes to about $72,646, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county has 155 public schools and about 87,955 students.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL, is the closest to CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY. Its average proficiency rate of 86.9% is above the 62.9% average for nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 538, close to the 529 recorded in 2020-21.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
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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 DUNEDIN
- DUNEDIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,221 students
- DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 842 students
- GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 545 students
- DUNEDIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 474 students
- ACADEMIE DA VINCI CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 336 students
- SAN JOSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 336 students
Nearby schools
- DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 842
- DUNEDIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 474
- CALVIN A. HUNSINGER SCHOOL1.1 mi · 101
- SANDY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 288
- KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL1.5 mi · 277
- ACADEMIE DA VINCI CHARTER SCHOOL1.5 mi · 336
Frequently asked questions
About CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARYHow large is CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY?
CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 538 students in grades KG-05.
Is CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY have?
CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
What is the student diversity at CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY are roughly 74% White, 14% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY?
CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY is overseen by PINELLAS in Pinellas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.