MIDTOWN ACADEMY

Set in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, MIDTOWN ACADEMY is an intimate K-5 school, one of the schools within PINELLAS. It works with 368 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

MIDTOWN ACADEMY is one of 151 schools operated by PINELLAS, a district that teaches 87,955 students overall.

Demographically, MIDTOWN ACADEMY logs that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 32% Black, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MIDTOWN ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.9%, the actual is 69.4%, a residual of +6.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Pinellas County shows median household earnings sit near $72,646, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), MIDTOWN ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

MELROSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MIDTOWN ACADEMY at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 58.8%.

MIDTOWN ACADEMY operates from a high-density location.

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