PLATO SEMINOLE

PLATO SEMINOLE, a close-knit elementary-level community in LARGO, Florida, run under PINELLAS, works with 311 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 49% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Within PINELLAS, which oversees 151 schools and 87,955 students, PLATO SEMINOLE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, PLATO SEMINOLE logs that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 13% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Pinellas County's rate of about 45%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PLATO SEMINOLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Pinellas County) logs that 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 SEMINOLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FUGUITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PLATO SEMINOLE comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

PLATO SEMINOLE operates from an urban location. PLATO SEMINOLE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. PLATO SEMINOLE's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 363 (now 311). The White share of enrollment fell from 81% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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