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Enrollment
546
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156001669
PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1301 PONCE DE LEON BLVD, CLEARWATER, FL 33756 · (727) 588-3573 · Pinellas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL546 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% 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.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
13.0:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
390 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 57 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
72%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
63.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +7.7pp since 2023
Math
69.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.7% | 69.7% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 63.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
64.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 45% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (64.1% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 546 | 71.4% | 64.1% |
| LAKE ORIENTA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALTAMONTE SPRINGS | 574 | 72.3% | 51.8% |
| JAMES TILLMAN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL PALMETTO | 614 | 73.1% | 56.0% |
| MEDULLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 488 | 73.0% | 43.1% |
| LUCILLE MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PANAMA CITY | 543 | 67.8% | 46.9% |
| ELBERT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINTER HAVEN | 549 | 72.9% | 39.4% |
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 PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.1% | #682 of 2,136 | #43 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.7% | #651 of 2,149 ▲ 135 | #35 of 90 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.7% | #671 of 2,149 ▲ 227 | #38 of 90 ▲ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 546 | #1,244 of 2,267 | #24 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #144 of 2,077 | #32 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.7% | #96 of 2,108 | #10 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.4% | #406 of 2,188 | #19 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.1% | #1,329 of 1,374 | #75 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
546
+49 (+10%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 514
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 546 | 42 | 13.0:1 | 71% (390) |
| 2023-24 | 546 | 43 | 12.7:1 | 79% (434) |
| 2022-23 | 568 | 47 | 12.1:1 | 79% (450) |
| 2020-21 | 497 | 38 | 13.1:1 | 77% (382) |
| 2017-18 | 552 | 48 | 11.5:1 | 80% (443) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 51 | 11.6:1 | 75% (447) |
| 2010-11 | 686 | 50 | 13.7:1 | 71% (486) |
| 2000-01 | 684 | 44 | 15.6:1 | 53% (365) |
| 1990-91 | 514 | 30 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in CLEARWATER, Florida, and it is part of PINELLAS. Enrollment is 546 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 5.
PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of a district of 151 schools: PINELLAS, with 87,955 students.
Hispanic students are the largest group at PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 38% of enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 29% Black, 21% White, and 10% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 11%. By the diversity index, PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 72%.
Staffing totals 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.0:1. That ratio is under the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 71%. The average for public schools in Pinellas County is 45%.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 45.4%. PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 64.1%, 18.7 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Census Bureau estimates for Pinellas County show that median household income is about $72,646, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. A total of 155 public schools operate in Pinellas County, serving about 87,955 students.
PINELLAS ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE is located about 0.6 miles from PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is City: Small.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL went from 497 students to 546.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 CLEARWATER
- CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,543 students
- COUNTRYSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,396 students
- CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 736 students
- OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 724 students
- DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF SCIENCEElementary · 722 students
- PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 704 students
Other Ponce De Leon Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Ponce De Leon Elementary. PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPONCE DE LEON, FL · 272 students
Nearby schools
- PINELLAS ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE0.6 mi · 817
- LARGO HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 2,058
- BELLEAIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 455
- DROPOUT PREVENTION SCHOOL1.5 mi · 395
- MILDRED HELMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 515
- LARGO MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 752
Frequently asked questions
About PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 546 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 13.0:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 21% White, 38% Hispanic, 29% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by PINELLAS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.