PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a modestly sized primary school in PINELLAS PARK, Florida, overseen by PINELLAS. The school enrolls 483 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 20% leaner than that benchmark.

PINELLAS comprises 151 schools with combined enrollment of 87,955 students; PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 27% Hispanic, 23% Black, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Pinellas County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 57.2%.

In the broader community, Pinellas County reports that median household income runs about $72,646, 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), PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PLATO ACADEMY PINELLAS PARK CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PINELLAS CENTRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 640 students in 2018 compared to 483 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 43% to 33% across the same window.

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