SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of cozy scale in TARPON SPRINGS, Florida, operated by PINELLAS, hosting 428 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 29% below that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Pinellas County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 72.3%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Pinellas County put the typical household earns roughly $72,646 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Pinellas County's 155 public schools (combined enrollment of about 87,955 students), SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

TARPON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 533 students in 2018 compared to 428 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 71% across the same window.

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