Enrollment
356
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156001643
MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1752 13TH AVE S, ST PETERSBURG, FL 33712 · (727) 893-2175 · Pinellas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL356 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% of Florida public elementary schools
- C-Test 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.
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
12.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
322 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 | 24 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
26%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
37.6%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
46.2%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.6% | 46.2% |
| 2023-24 | 36.6% | 46.8% |
% 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
40.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (40.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 356 | 90.4% | 40.3% |
| MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GAINESVILLE | 312 | 89.7% | 18.8% |
| PLEASANT CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 315 | 90.2% | 36.4% |
| LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL TAMPA | 376 | 85.6% | 30.7% |
| SOMERSET ACADEMY-ELEMENTARY EAGLE CAMPUS JACKSONVILLE | 324 | 85.5% | 40.0% |
| EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER SCHOOL OF MIAMI GARDENS MIAMI GARDENS | 413 | 93.9% | 40.0% |
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 MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.3% | #1,793 of 2,136 | #87 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.2% | #1,716 of 2,149 ▼ 166 | #85 of 90 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.6% | #1,867 of 2,149 ▼ 87 | #88 of 90 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 356 | #1,874 of 2,267 | #73 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #62 of 2,077 | #18 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.3% | #1,899 of 2,108 | #89 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.4% | #35 of 2,188 | #1 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.2% | #663 of 1,374 | #44 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
356
+10 (+3%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 687
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 356 | 29 | 12.3:1 | 90% (322) |
| 2023-24 | 363 | 25 | 14.5:1 | 92% (335) |
| 2022-23 | 322 | 25 | 12.9:1 | 93% (300) |
| 2020-21 | 346 | 29 | 11.9:1 | 92% (318) |
| 2017-18 | 425 | 36 | 11.8:1 | 91% (387) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 44 | 9.9:1 | 88% (383) |
| 2010-11 | 361 | 29 | 12.4:1 | 93% (335) |
| 2000-01 | 515 | 34 | 15.2:1 | 74% (380) |
| 1990-91 | 687 | 31 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, and it is part of PINELLAS. It has an enrollment of 356 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Florida average about 604 students, which makes this school 41% below average.
PINELLAS serves 87,955 students across 151 schools.
The share of Black students at MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 85%. Enrollment also includes 7% Hispanic, 4% White, and 4% multiracial. The school's Black share is 76 points above the 10% share among Pinellas County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 26%.
MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reported 29 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 12.3:1. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 5.2 more students per teacher than here. There are 322 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 90% of enrollment. On average, public schools in Pinellas County report 45%.
MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 32% of Florida public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would be expected to post about 35.8%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 40.3%.
In the surrounding county, Pinellas County, median household income comes to about $72,646, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county's public schools total 155, with about 87,955 students.
JOHN HOPKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL sits about 0.4 miles from MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on average proficiency.
MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as City: Large in federal locale data.
Federal enrollment counts rose from 346 (2020-21) to 356 (2024-25).
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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
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- ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,736 students
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- ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,736 students
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- GIBBS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,125 students
- LAKEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 880 students
- JAMES B. SANDERLIN K-8Elementary · 817 students
- TYRONE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 799 students
Other Melrose Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 8 states are named Melrose Elementary. MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 10.
- MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 518 students
- MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMELROSE, FL · 353 students
- MELROSE ELEMENTARYMELROSE, MN · 512 students
- Melrose ElementaryPlacentia, CA · 354 students
- Melrose Elementary SchoolRoseburg, OR · 302 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN HOPKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 757
- PERKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 561
- MIDTOWN ACADEMY0.6 mi · 368
- CAMPBELL PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 502
- JAMES B. SANDERLIN K-80.9 mi · 817
- LAKEVIEW FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 309
Frequently asked questions
About MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 356 students in grades PK-05.
Is MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.3:1 students per teacher at MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 4% White, 7% Hispanic, 85% Black, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PINELLAS in Pinellas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.