OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL

As an average-sized middle-grades school in CLEARWATER, Florida, OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL works with 724 students from grades 6 through 8, run under PINELLAS.

Across the 151 schools in PINELLAS (87,955 students total), OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 30% White, 19% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Pinellas County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Pinellas County put median household income runs about $72,646, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 155 public schools in Pinellas County (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students).

PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 62.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 38%: 1,175 students in 2018 compared to 724 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 30% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.