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Enrollment
451
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PINELLAS·NCES 120156002582
SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
9101 WALSINGHAM RD, LARGO, FL 33773 · (727) 588-4654 · Pinellas County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL451 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
262 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 | 43 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 36% smaller than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
65%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
62.8%
FL avg 56.7% . -1.8pp since 2023
Math
66.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.8% | 66.5% |
| 2023-24 | 64.6% | 66.0% |
% 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
66.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% 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 15 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 SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (66.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 451 | 58.1% | 66.6% |
| BELCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEARWATER | 467 | 58.5% | 61.5% |
| SABAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MELBOURNE | 493 | 58.4% | 42.2% |
| SEVEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW PORT RICHEY | 469 | 55.4% | 45.3% |
| IMAGINE CHARTER AT LAKEWOOD RANCH BRADENTON | 456 | 54.2% | 47.3% |
| MCMULLEN-BOOTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLEARWATER | 445 | 56.0% | 55.4% |
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 SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Pinellas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.6% | #578 of 2,136 | #36 of 90 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #798 of 2,149 ▼ 93 | #46 of 90 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #710 of 2,149 ▼ 163 | #44 of 90 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 451 | #1,609 of 2,267 | #47 of 90 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #254 of 2,077 | #51 of 90 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.7% | #588 of 2,108 | #39 of 90 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.1% | #979 of 2,188 | #37 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.6% | #590 of 1,374 | #36 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
451
-58 (-11%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 873
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 451 | 33 | 13.7:1 | 58% (262) |
| 2023-24 | 495 | 35 | 14.1:1 | 63% (314) |
| 2022-23 | 556 | 34 | 16.4:1 | 61% (338) |
| 2020-21 | 509 | 35 | 14.5:1 | 56% (285) |
| 2017-18 | 547 | 42 | 13.0:1 | 63% (343) |
| 2015-16 | 682 | 49 | 13.9:1 | 59% (400) |
| 2010-11 | 663 | 48 | 13.8:1 | 68% (452) |
| 2000-01 | 662 | 40 | 16.6:1 | 65% (431) |
| 1990-91 | 873 | 43 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a small elementary school, SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in LARGO, Florida. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 451 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in Florida enroll around 604, and this school is 25% below that mark.
PINELLAS serves 87,955 students across 151 schools.
More than half of the students at SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White (51%). The next largest groups are 27% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 8% Black, and 2% Asian. In Pinellas County overall, about 74% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 65%.
Based on 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a ratio of 13.7:1. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is 3.8 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 58%. That is 13 points above the 45% average for public schools in Pinellas County.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the top 10% of Florida schools: 66.6% actual against 52.1% predicted.
The county, Pinellas County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $72,646, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county's public schools total 155, with about 87,955 students.
WALSINGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 61.4%; SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 66.6%, ranking 3rd of 9.
For locale, NCES codes SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Suburb: Large.
The school's student count fell 11% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 LARGO
- LARGO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,058 students
- PINELLAS PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,691 students
- FITZGERALD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 910 students
- PINELLAS ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCEElementary · 817 students
- PINELLAS PREPARATORY ACADEMYElementary · 764 students
- LARGO MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 752 students
Nearby schools
- WALSINGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 366
- FUGUITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 464
- OSCEOLA FUNDAMENTAL HIGH1.5 mi · 1,706
- PINELLAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY1.5 mi · 764
- PLATO SEMINOLE1.6 mi · 311
- OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 933
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 451 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 51% White, 27% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by PINELLAS in Pinellas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.