Enrollment
305
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156007910
PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL
7100 142ND AVE N, LARGO, FL 33771 · (727) 228-9552 · Pinellas County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL305 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% of Florida public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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
10.5:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
132 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 26 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 31 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 31 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 41 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (26) is 37% smaller than its 8th grade class (41).
Student demographics
66%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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
59.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +13.2pp since 2023
Math
67.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +16.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.2% | 67.6% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 51.0% |
% 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
55.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL
PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (55.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 305 | 43.3% | 55.0% |
| HOLIDAY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 460 | 42.4% | 54.3% |
| ABESS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 509 | 44.2% | 70.8% |
| PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG ST. PETERSBURG | 374 | 31.3% | 67.8% |
| COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 489 | 40.1% | 69.0% |
| CROSS BAYOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PINELLAS PARK | 303 | 57.8% | 48.0% |
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 LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,098 of 2,136 | #64 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.6% | #750 of 2,149 ▲ 578 | #41 of 90 ▲ 29 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.2% | #873 of 2,149 ▲ 476 | #55 of 90 ▲ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 305 | #1,979 of 2,267 | #84 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #5 of 2,077 | #2 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #499 of 2,108 | #33 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.3% | #1,491 of 2,188 | #50 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.3% | #734 of 1,374 | #49 of 75 |
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
305
-50 (-14%) vs 2020
+112% since 2010-11, when it was 144
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 305 | 29 | 10.5:1 | 43% (132) |
| 2023-24 | 337 | 29 | 11.6:1 | 47% (157) |
| 2022-23 | 347 | 28 | 12.4:1 | 52% (179) |
| 2020-21 | 355 | 27 | 13.2:1 | 39% (137) |
| 2017-18 | 356 | 22 | 16.2:1 | 37% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 364 | 18 | 20.2:1 | 34% (122) |
| 2010-11 | 144 | N/A | N/A | 19% (28) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL.
About PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL
PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL is a small elementary school serving families in LARGO, Florida. The school teaches kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 305 students. The school is 50% below the average for elementary schools in Florida.
PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL is run by PINELLAS, whose 151 schools enroll 87,955 students.
At PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL, 51% of students are White. It is also 24% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% Asian, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Pinellas County is roughly 74% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL scores 66%.
With 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 10.5:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. Roughly 43% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Pinellas County is similar, at 45%.
On the allk12 Grade, PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL lands at C+, ahead of 39% of Florida public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL is 4.4 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 55.0% actual, 59.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Florida.
The county, Pinellas County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $72,646, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The county's public schools total 155, with about 87,955 students.
FRONTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits about 0.6 miles from PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL. PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 55.3%, higher than PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL's 55.0%.
PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large. PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL had a net loss of 50 students, or 14%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 13.2 to 10.5 over 4 years.
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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 LARGO
- LARGO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,058 students
- PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,691 students
- FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 910 students
- PINELLAS ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCEElementary · 817 students
- PINELLAS PREPARATORY ACADEMYElementary · 764 students
- LARGO MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 752 students
Nearby schools
- FRONTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 542
- PINELLAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY0.7 mi · 764
- HIGH POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 600
- PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,691
- FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 910
- PINELLAS COUNTY JAIL1.9 mi · 25
Frequently asked questions
About PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOLHow large is PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL?
PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 305 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL serve?
PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL is approximately 10.5:1 (29 FTE teachers).
How diverse is PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL?
PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL reports a student body of 51% White, 24% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL?
PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL is overseen by PINELLAS in Pinellas County.
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