MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small K-5 school in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, overseen by PINELLAS, instructs 356 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 41% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

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

On demographics, MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (85%) are Black; the rest is composed of 7% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the resource side, MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Pinellas County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.8%; this one delivers 40.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Pinellas County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 155 public schools in Pinellas County (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students).

The closest other public school is JOHN HOPKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 16%, going from 425 students in 2018 to 356 in 2025.

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