LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small K-5 school, operated by PINELLAS. It instructs 446 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 26% leaner than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 73% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 10% White, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Pinellas County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.5%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Pinellas County indicate median household income runs about $72,646, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.9%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 405 students in 2018 compared to 446 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 79% to 73%. Class-load math has grew: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.