PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER

PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in CLEARWATER, Florida, part of PINELLAS, serveing 616 students in grades K through 8.

Across the 151 schools in PINELLAS (87,955 students total), PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER shows that 57% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 21% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER logs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 5% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Pinellas County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.7%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of -8.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Pinellas County put median household earnings sit near $72,646, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER is one.

Nearest neighbor: PINELLAS GULF COAST ACADEMY, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site. PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 35%: 455 students in 2018 compared to 616 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 57% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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