PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS

Set in TARPON SPRINGS, Florida, PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS is a close-knit elementary campus, run under PINELLAS. It educates 349 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 42% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

PINELLAS runs 151 schools in total, collectively educating 87,955 students. PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS logs that 73% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 17% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Pinellas County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS tighter than the state norm the norm. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.7%; this one delivers 66.2%.

In the surrounding community, Pinellas County reports that 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), PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BROOKER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 75.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 361 students in 2018 compared to 349 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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