FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL

FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-grades school of reasonably sized scale in LARGO, Florida, part of PINELLAS, caters to 910 students in grades 6 through 8.

PINELLAS runs 151 schools in total, collectively educating 87,955 students. FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is White (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 35% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.8%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Pinellas County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 1,096 students in 2018 compared to 910 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 36% across the same window.

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