EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING

As a small middle school in TARPON SPRINGS, Florida, EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING enrolls 392 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by PINELLAS. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 51% leaner than typical.

Within PINELLAS, which oversees 151 schools and 87,955 students, EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING lists that White students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 11% of students at EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Pinellas County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.5%, the actual is 87.1%, a residual of +11.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Pinellas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING is one of 155 public schools in Pinellas County (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students).

EAST LAKE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 77.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING has showed little movement, going from 395 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 83% to 78%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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