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What's the one class at GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
421
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156001626
GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2014 52ND ST S, GULFPORT, FL 33707 · (727) 893-2643 · Pinellas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL421 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
334 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 | 45 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 74 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
55%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
44.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.6pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 9 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.9% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.2% | 42.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
46.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (46.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 421 | 79.3% | 46.6% |
| LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RIVIERA BEACH | 397 | 78.3% | 38.0% |
| GLOBAL LEARNING ACADEMY PENSACOLA | 489 | 80.0% | 31.9% |
| LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG | 446 | 79.1% | 47.7% |
| SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 459 | 77.8% | 40.9% |
| OAK RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 432 | 78.5% | 31.8% |
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 GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #1,503 of 2,136 | #83 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #1,512 of 2,149 ▲ 224 | #79 of 90 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #1,552 of 2,149 ▲ 31 | #80 of 90 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 421 | #1,709 of 2,267 | #61 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #164 of 2,077 | #37 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.7% | #1,142 of 2,108 | #56 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.3% | #161 of 2,188 | #5 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.9% | #152 of 1,374 | #12 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
421
-113 (-21%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 451
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 421 | 32 | 13.2:1 | 79% (334) |
| 2023-24 | 379 | 27 | 14.0:1 | 86% (325) |
| 2022-23 | 435 | 33 | 13.2:1 | 86% (373) |
| 2020-21 | 534 | 46 | 11.6:1 | 75% (402) |
| 2017-18 | 618 | 54 | 11.4:1 | 81% (500) |
| 2015-16 | 662 | 46 | 14.4:1 | 75% (494) |
| 2010-11 | 630 | 44 | 14.3:1 | 82% (514) |
| 2000-01 | 372 | 22 | 16.9:1 | 76% (283) |
| 1990-91 | 451 | 21 | 21.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in GULFPORT, Florida, according to federal school records. Total enrollment is 421 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5. It has 30% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Florida (about 604).
PINELLAS is the local district for GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It runs 151 schools with 87,955 students.
Of every 100 students at GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 64 are Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 15% Hispanic, 13% White, and 7% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 10%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 55%.
There are 32 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 13.2:1. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is 4.3 students per teacher. On the income side, 79% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 45% average for public schools in Pinellas County, the school's rate is higher.
On the allk12 Grade, GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 41% of Florida public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 46.6%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 41.4%.
In Pinellas County, home to about 963,481 people, median household income comes to about $72,646, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 155 public schools in the county, enrolling about 87,955, GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, DISSTON ACADEMY, is about 0.7 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 51.0%; GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 46.6%, ranking 4th of 7.
GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 21% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio rising from 11.6:1 to 13.2:1.
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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 GULFPORT
- BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,039 students
- DISSTON ACADEMYHigh · 63 students
Nearby schools
- DISSTON ACADEMY0.7 mi · 63
- PINELLAS TELESCHOOL0.7 mi · 130
- BOCA CIEGA HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,039
- THURGOOD MARSHALL FUNDAMENTAL1.0 mi · 751
- FAIRMOUNT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 425
- DOUGLAS L. JAMERSON JR. ELEMENTARY1.4 mi · 536
Frequently asked questions
About GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 421 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 13.2:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 13% White, 15% Hispanic, 64% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
GULFPORT MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PINELLAS.
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