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OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the reasonably sized elementary-level communitys in PALM HARBOR, Florida, part of PINELLAS, with 727 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% larger than the state mean of about 604.
OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 151 schools operated by PINELLAS, a district that caters to 87,955 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.8%; this one delivers 82.3%.
Around the school, census data for Pinellas County shows 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%. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 74.3%.
OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 8%: 789 students in 2018 compared to 727 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 84% to 79%.
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