STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in SEMINOLE, Florida, STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary campus, run under PINELLAS. It teaches 580 students across grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. Beyond that, the school shows 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Black, 5% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Pinellas County) reports that median household earnings sit near $72,646, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 64.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. STARKEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 685 (now 580). White enrollment moved from 67% to 60% across the same window.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.