PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in PALM HARBOR, Florida, PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL is a tight-knit elementary campus, one of the schools within PINELLAS. It educates 343 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 43% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

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

In terms of who attends, PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment; the rest reads as 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 23% of students at PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.5%; this one delivers 70.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Pinellas County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,646, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: GARRISON-JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 73.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area. PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. PLATO ACADEMY PALM HARBOR CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 363 (now 343). Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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