PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG

PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG operates as an intimate elementary school in ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, part of PINELLAS. Current enrollment sits at 374 students spanning grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 38% leaner than typical.

PINELLAS comprises 151 schools with combined enrollment of 87,955 students; PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG is among them.

On demographics, PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Asian, 7% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG tighter than the state norm the norm. About 31% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Pinellas County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.5%, the actual is 67.8%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Pinellas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG is one campus in the mix.

SEVENTY-FOURTH ST. ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 53.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. PLATO ACADEMY OF ST.PETERSBURG's enrollment has edged up 7% since 2018, when it stood at 349 (now 374). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 73% to 63%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

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