SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a mid-sized middle-grades school in SAFETY HARBOR, Florida, SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls 956 students from grades 6 through 8, run under PINELLAS. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 20% above that benchmark.

PINELLAS runs 151 schools in total, collectively educating 87,955 students. SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 34% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Pinellas County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL shows 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.1%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of -8.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Pinellas County shows median household earnings sit near $72,646, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SAFETY HARBOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 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 SAFETY HARBOR MIDDLE SCHOOL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 61.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 1,201 students in 2018 compared to 956 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 56% to 48% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 today.

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