Enrollment
277
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156008432
KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
1715 KINGS HIGHWAY, CLEARWATER, FL 33755 · (727) 223-8949 · Pinellas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL277 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats 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
11.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
202 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 77 | 28% |
| Kindergarten | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 25 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (38).
Student demographics
62%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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
75.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.4pp since 2023
Math
73.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 9 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 | 75.0% | 73.5% |
| 2023-24 | 65.5% | 66.1% |
% 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
70.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+26.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 45% 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 26 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 KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL's state test result (70.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL this school | 277 | 72.9% | 70.6% |
| COLLINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DANIA BEACH | 252 | 69.8% | 43.8% |
| SANDY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEARWATER | 288 | 77.8% | 56.6% |
| BEN GAMLA CHARTER SCHOOL SOUTH BROWARD MIAMI | 295 | 73.2% | 61.1% |
| BEAR CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG | 237 | 73.0% | 54.2% |
| RAMONA BOULEVARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 292 | 76.4% | 45.5% |
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 KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #438 of 2,136 | #27 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.5% | #503 of 2,149 ▲ 192 | #30 of 90 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #282 of 2,149 ▲ 232 | #16 of 90 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 277 | #2,020 of 2,267 | #87 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #15 of 2,077 | #5 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.8% | #765 of 2,108 | #45 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.9% | #348 of 2,188 | #14 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.7% | #281 of 1,374 | #18 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
277
-40 (-13%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 277 | 25 | 11.1:1 | 73% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 277 | 26 | 10.7:1 | 80% (222) |
| 2022-23 | 278 | 27 | 10.3:1 | 81% (225) |
| 2020-21 | 317 | 32 | 9.9:1 | 77% (245) |
| 2017-18 | 378 | 32 | 11.8:1 | 78% (295) |
| 2015-16 | 319 | 22 | 14.5:1 | 66% (210) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL.
About KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is an elementary school in CLEARWATER, Florida, reachable at (727) 223-8949. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 277 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 151 schools in PINELLAS, which enrolls 87,955 students in total.
Of every 100 students at KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL, about 56 are Black. The school is also 22% Hispanic, 12% 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, KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL scores 62%.
On staff are 25 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.1:1. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 6.4 more students per teacher than here. KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 73%. That is higher than the 45% average for public schools in Pinellas County.
KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 89% of Florida public elementary schools.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is 44.6%. It actually posts 70.6%, which is 26.0 points higher and in the top 10% of Florida schools.
For Pinellas County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $72,646, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 155 public schools in the county, enrolling about 87,955, KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, SANDY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, is about 0.3 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is 3rd of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Federal data place KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 277, compared with 317 in 2020-21. Federal data show the ratio rising from 9.9:1 to 11.1:1.
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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
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Nearby schools
- SANDY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 288
- CALVIN A. HUNSINGER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 101
- PINELLAS HIGH INNOVATION0.7 mi · 194
- CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 736
- DUNEDIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 474
- DUNEDIN HIGHLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 842
Frequently asked questions
About KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 277 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL serve?
KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.1:1 students per teacher at KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL.
How diverse is KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL reports a student body of 12% White, 22% Hispanic, 56% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is overseen by PINELLAS in Pinellas County.
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