NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a tight-knit elementary school in ST PETERSBURG, Florida, NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 418 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by PINELLAS. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 31% below that benchmark.

Within PINELLAS, which oversees 151 schools and 87,955 students, NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 23% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

In terms of school funding signals, NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.4%, the actual is 65.6%, a residual of +10.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Pinellas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WESTGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 61.0%.

NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 26%, going from 568 students in 2018 to 418 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 55% to 48% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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