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Enrollment
545
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156002789
GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3133 GARRISON RD, DUNEDIN, FL 34698 · (727) 469-5716 · Pinellas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL545 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
214 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 66 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
57%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
66.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.3pp since 2023
Math
76.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.8% | 76.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.6% | 69.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
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 GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (70.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 545 | 39.3% | 70.1% |
| BRADEN RIVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 547 | 40.6% | 69.5% |
| CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUART | 443 | 38.8% | 67.1% |
| LAKE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 475 | 41.5% | 82.4% |
| PLANTATION KEY SCHOOL TAVERNIER | 578 | 34.1% | 75.3% |
| PLATO ACADEMY TRINITY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 489 | 41.1% | 53.1% |
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 GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.1% | #459 of 2,136 | #28 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #414 of 2,149 ▲ 131 | #23 of 90 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #554 of 2,149 ▲ 138 | #35 of 90 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 545 | #1,249 of 2,267 | #25 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #590 of 2,077 | #72 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.2% | #1,029 of 2,108 | #53 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.3% | #1,603 of 2,188 | #59 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #597 of 1,374 | #38 of 75 |
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
545
-29 (-5%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 604
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 545 | 37 | 14.7:1 | 39% (214) |
| 2023-24 | 598 | 37 | 16.2:1 | 44% (263) |
| 2022-23 | 593 | 40 | 14.8:1 | 46% (275) |
| 2020-21 | 574 | 42 | 13.7:1 | 50% (286) |
| 2017-18 | 661 | 45 | 14.7:1 | 54% (356) |
| 2015-16 | 663 | 50 | 13.3:1 | 55% (365) |
| 2010-11 | 712 | 49 | 14.5:1 | 41% (291) |
| 2000-01 | 780 | 42 | 18.6:1 | 25% (195) |
| 1990-91 | 604 | 29 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A mid-sized elementary school in DUNEDIN, Florida, GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PINELLAS. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 545 students.
In PINELLAS, 151 schools enroll a combined 87,955 students.
White students are 57% of those enrolled at GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 32% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Pinellas County's population at about 74%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 57%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 14.7:1, based on 37 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida, this school's ratio is lower. Lunch program data show 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 61.5% for GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The school posts 70.1%, 8.6 points above the prediction.
For the population of Pinellas County, the median household earns about $72,646 a year, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Across Pinellas County, 155 public schools serve about 87,955 students.
DUNEDIN HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment was 545 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 574. The ratio was 13.7:1 in 2020-21 and 14.7:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
Related schools
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
- CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARYElementary · 538 students
- DUNEDIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 474 students
- ACADEMIE DA VINCI CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 336 students
- SAN JOSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 336 students
Nearby schools
- DUNEDIN HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,221
- PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 343
- ACADEMIE DA VINCI CHARTER SCHOOL1.4 mi · 336
- SAN JOSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 336
- ENTERPRISE CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 387
- ATHENIAN ACADEMY2.2 mi · 377
Frequently asked questions
About GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 545 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.7:1 (37 FTE teachers).
How diverse is GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 57% White, 32% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PINELLAS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.