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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER this year?
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Enrollment
616
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156004036
PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER
2045 PALMETTO ST, CLEARWATER, FL 33765 · (727) 228-9517 · Pinellas County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL616 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of Florida public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
5%
30 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 73 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 61 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 20% larger than its 8th grade class (61).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
72.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +8.8pp since 2023
Math
80.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 80.9% |
| 2023-24 | 63.2% | 74.1% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
70.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 79% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER
PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER's state test result (70.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER this school | 616 | 4.9% | 70.0% |
| WINDERMERE ELEMENTARY WINDERMERE | 574 | 8.0% | 87.2% |
| SUMMERLAKE ELEMENTARY WINTER GARDEN | 726 | 8.4% | 81.9% |
| SANDERS MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAND O LAKES | 842 | 10.7% | 75.3% |
| HAMLIN ELEMENTARY WINTER GARDEN | 549 | 9.5% | 85.6% |
| LUTZ PREPARATORY SCHOOL LUTZ | 779 | 0.9% | 87.5% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #467 of 2,136 | #30 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.9% | #260 of 2,149 ▲ 141 | #13 of 90 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #367 of 2,149 ▲ 231 | #21 of 90 ▲ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 616 | #973 of 2,267 | #14 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #204 of 2,077 | #43 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.0% | #828 of 2,108 | #48 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 4.9% | #2,161 of 2,188 | #90 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +35.4% | #97 of 621 | #5 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
616
+92 (+18%) vs 2020
+93% since 2010-11, when it was 320
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 13.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 616 | 46 | 13.4:1 | 5% (30) |
| 2023-24 | 624 | 48 | 13.0:1 | 32% (200) |
| 2022-23 | 630 | 46 | 13.7:1 | 37% (233) |
| 2020-21 | 524 | 39 | 13.4:1 | 28% (148) |
| 2017-18 | 455 | 27 | 16.9:1 | 27% (124) |
| 2015-16 | 416 | 26 | 16.0:1 | 24% (101) |
| 2010-11 | 320 | 16 | 20.0:1 | 15% (49) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER.
About PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER
PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER is a mid-sized elementary school in Florida, located in CLEARWATER. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 8, with 616 students on the rolls.
PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER is one school in PINELLAS, a system of 151 schools with 87,955 students.
About 57% of the student body at PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER is White. Other groups make up 21% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% Asian, and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 74% of Pinellas County residents are White. A diversity index of 61% means there is a 61% chance two randomly chosen students at PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER are from different groups.
PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.4 students per teacher. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1. About 5% of students at PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 40 points below the 45% average for public schools in Pinellas County.
On the allk12 Grade, PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER lands at B-, ahead of 52% of Florida public elementary schools.
PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER scores 70.0% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 78.7%.
The county, Pinellas County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $72,646 a year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER, Pinellas County has 155 public schools.
PINELLAS GULF COAST ACADEMY, about 0.6 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.
The school's enrollment rose 18% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Pinellas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
963,481
Census ACS
Median income
$72,646
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
155
87,955 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PINELLAS
- PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGHHigh · 2,413 students
- LARGO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,058 students
- EAST LAKE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,980 students
- DIXIE M. HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,934 students
- ST. PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,736 students
- OSCEOLA FUNDAMENTAL HIGHHigh · 1,706 students
Other schools in CLEARWATER
- CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,543 students
- COUNTRYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,396 students
- CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 736 students
- OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 724 students
- DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF SCIENCEElementary · 722 students
- PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 704 students
Nearby schools
- PINELLAS GULF COAST ACADEMY0.6 mi · 202
- SKYCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 521
- CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 736
- CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,543
- KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL1.7 mi · 277
- PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 704
Frequently asked questions
About PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATERHow many students attend PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER?
PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER enrolls approximately 616 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER serve?
PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER.
How diverse is PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER?
PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER reports a student body of 57% White, 21% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER public or private?
PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by PINELLAS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.