SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of small scale in SEMINOLE, Florida, one of the schools within PINELLAS, caters to 371 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 39% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

PINELLAS runs 151 schools in total, collectively educating 87,955 students. SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 64% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 20% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Asian. 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, SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 56% 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 meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.3%; this one delivers 61.8%.

In the surrounding community, Pinellas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Pinellas County runs 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), of which SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

ORANGE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 65.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SEMINOLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 38%, going from 601 students in 2018 to 371 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 12% to 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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