Pinellas County's student body primarily comprised of white students in 2022-23 school year

FL Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz Jr. 2023 | Commissioner of Education

By St. Pete Standard

Mar 14, 2024

The majority of students in Pinellas County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Florida Department of Education.

Of the 93,702 students attending Pinellas County schools, 51.2% were white. Hispanic students were the second largest ethnicity, making up 19.8% of Pinellas County students.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common ethnicity in Pinellas County, representing 53% of the student body.

Pace Center for Girls had the most even distribution of races among the county schools, including 37.2% white students and 25.6% Black students.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in public schools in the county dropped 1.8% when compared to the previous year.

Florida's choice to stick with in-person classes during the pandemic may have shielded students from significant learning setbacks. A recent Harvard study highlighted that districts heavily reliant on remote learning saw the most significant declines in student achievement amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Interestingly, gaps in math achievement by race and school poverty did not widen in school districts in states such as Texas and Florida and elsewhere that remained largely in-person, said Thomas Kane, professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Ethnicities in Pinellas County in 2022-23 School Year

Students' Ethnicity Percentage in Pinellas County Schools in 2022-23 School Year

School Name	Most Prevalent Ethnicity	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Academie Da Vinci Charter School	White	80.3%	345
Alfred Adler Elementary School	White	76.8%	56
Anona Elementary School	White	66.8%	473
Athenian Academy	White	54%	413
Azalea Elementary School	White	58.6%	507
Azalea Middle School	Black	49%	678
Bardmoor Elementary School	White	54.3%	449
Bauder Elementary School	White	82%	644
Bay Point Elementary School	Black	73.7%	453
Bay Point Middle School	Black	66%	770
Bay Vista Fundamental Elementary School	White	39.9%	589
Bayside High School	Black	40.3%	201
Bear Creek Elementary School	Black	52.1%	286
Belcher Elementary School	White	50.5%	489
Belleair Elementary School	Hispanic	49.2%	472
Blanton Elementary School	White	37.6%	500
Boca Ciega High School	Black	52.1%	1,423
Brooker Creek Elementary School	White	77.4%	548
Calvin A. Hunsinger School	White	48.5%	68
Campbell Park Elementary School	Black	86.2%	462
Chi Chi Rodriquez Academy	White	47%	66
Clearwater Fundamental Middle School	White	65.7%	753
Clearwater High School	Hispanic	36.7%	1,664
Clearwater Intermediate School	Black	42.4%	165
Countryside High School	White	53.9%	1,741
Cross Bayou Elementary School	White	50%	356
Curlew Creek Elementary School	White	68.3%	634
Curtis Fundamental Elementary School	White	73.7%	536
Cypress Woods Elementary School	White	76.2%	709
Discovery Academy of Science	White	68.8%	542
Disston Academy	Black	74.5%	106
Dixie M. Hollins High School	White	50%	1,822
Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School	Black	45.3%	554
Dropout Prevention School	White	41.7%	379
Dunedin Elementary School	Hispanic	38%	476
Dunedin High School	White	55.3%	1,203
Dunedin Highland Middle School	White	44.5%	899
East Lake High School	White	72%	2,286
East Lake Middle School Academy of Engineering	White	83.3%	394
Eisenhower Elementary School	Hispanic	49.3%	661
Elisa Nelson Elementary School	White	78.5%	442
Enterprise Charter High School	White	48%	394
Ese Countywide	White	55.3%	190
Fairmount Park Elementary School	Black	84.2%	500
Fitzgerald Middle School	White	38.8%	1,033
Forest Lakes Elementary School	White	60.4%	498
Frontier Elementary School	White	40.7%	651
Fuguitt Elementary School	White	49.1%	479
Garrison-Jones Elementary School	White	61.9%	593
Gibbs High School	Black	58.7%	1,160
Gulf Beaches Elementary Magnet School	White	73.3%	329
Gulfport Montessori Elementary School	Black	64.6%	435
High Point Elementary School	Hispanic	51.7%	609
Highland Lakes Elementary School	White	69.4%	529
Hospital/Homebound	White	61.3%	62
James B. Sanderlin K-8	White	42.7%	775
John Hopkins Middle School	Black	49.1%	723
John M. Sexton Elementary School	White	41.2%	449
Joseph L. Carwise Middle School	White	66.6%	1,098
Kings Highway Elementary Magnet School	Black	53.6%	278
Lake St. George Elementary School	White	70.1%	595
Lakeview Fundamental Elementary School	White	41.3%	351
Lakewood Elementary School	Black	75.5%	425
Lakewood High School	Black	59.9%	915
Largo High School	White	46.5%	2,055
Largo Middle School	White	40.6%	882
Lealman Avenue Elementary School	Black	38.7%	434
Lealman Innovation Academy	Black	62.7%	485
Leila Davis Elementary School	White	67.4%	665
Lynch Elementary School	White	58%	486
Madeira Beach Fundamental K-8	White	75.1%	1,343
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Elementary School	White	38.7%	460
Maximo Elementary School	Black	83.2%	445
McMullen-Booth Elementary School	White	41.5%	458
Meadowlawn Middle School	White	45.3%	832
Melrose Elementary School	Black	85.4%	322
Midtown Academy	White	46.3%	337
Mildred Helms Elementary School	White	47.9%	514
Mount Vernon Elementary School	White	38.3%	345
New Heights Elementary School	Black	28.3%	615
Nina Harris Ese Center	White	48.7%	154
North Shore Elementary School	White	56.9%	501
Northeast High School	White	50.9%	1,736
Northwest Elementary School	White	49.3%	477
Oak Grove Middle School	Hispanic	43.5%	843
Oakhurst Elementary School	White	73.5%	664
Oldsmar Elementary School	White	58.4%	546
Orange Grove Elementary School	White	67.1%	435
Osceola Fundamental High School	White	74.2%	1,715
Osceola Middle School	White	64.2%	1,009
Ozona Elementary School	White	81.1%	762
Pace Center for Girls	White	37.2%	43
Palm Harbor Middle School	White	72.7%	1,080
Palm Harbor University High School	White	75.5%	2,474
Pasadena Fundamental Elementary School	White	69.6%	461
Paul B. Stephens Ese Center	White	66.1%	165
Perkins Elementary School	Black	54.6%	539
Pinellas Academy of Math and Science	White	58.5%	879
Pinellas Central Elementary School	White	35.7%	498
Pinellas County Jail	Black	< 10%	11
Pinellas Gulf Coast Academy	White	50.9%	285
Pinellas Juvenile Det Center	Black	66.7%	48
Pinellas Mycroschool of Integrated Academics and Technologie	Black	46.2%	143
Pinellas Park Elementary School	White	33.4%	452
Pinellas Park High School	White	40.9%	1,919
Pinellas Park Middle School	White	42.9%	1,126
Pinellas Preparatory Academy	White	61.5%	794
Pinellas Secondary School	Black	57.2%	194
Pinellas Teleschool	Black	58.2%	141
Pinellas Virtual Franchise	White	60%	260
Plato Academy Charter School Tarpon Springs	White	77%	374
Plato Academy Clearwater	White	59.8%	630
Plato Academy Largo Charter School	White	58.2%	347
Plato Academy Palm Harbor Charter School	White	81.9%	370
Plato Academy Pinellas Park Charter School	White	56.1%	562
Plato Academy of St.petersburg	White	66%	376
Plato Seminole	White	71%	366
Plumb Elementary School	White	55.6%	622
Ponce De Leon Elementary School	Hispanic	35.6%	568
Richard L. Sanders School	White	59.3%	54
Richard O. Jacobson Technical High School at Seminole	White	69.9%	578
Ridgecrest Elementary School	White	40.2%	574
Safety Harbor Elementary School	White	66.2%	657
Safety Harbor Middle School	White	53.4%	974
San Jose Elementary School	White	68.6%	331
Sandy Lane Elementary School	Black	60.5%	304
Sawgrass Lake Elementary School	White	44.6%	596
Seminole Elementary School	White	65.7%	428
Seminole High School	White	76.7%	1,546
Seminole Middle School	White	65.4%	824
Seventy-Fourth St. Elementary School	White	42.6%	444
Shore Acres Elementary School	White	66.3%	709
Skycrest Elementary School	Hispanic	60.4%	565
Skyview Elementary School	White	46.6%	595
Southern Oak Elementary School	White	56.5%	556
St. Petersburg Collegiate High School	White	52.1%	234
St. Petersburg Collegiate High School North Pinellas	White	69.9%	186
St. Petersburg High School	White	55.1%	1,723
Starkey Elementary School	White	63.3%	657
Strive Academy	Black	< 10%	< 10
Sunset Hills Elementary School	White	71.2%	451
Sutherland Elementary School	White	74.3%	627
Tarpon Springs Elementary School	Black	32.6%	506
Tarpon Springs Fundamental Elementary School	White	75.2%	270
Tarpon Springs High School	White	64.4%	1,139
Tarpon Springs Middle School	White	60.1%	644
Thurgood Marshall Fundamental	White	41.1%	888
Tyrone Middle School	White	37.1%	847
Walsingham Elementary School	White	46.9%	392
Westgate Elementary School	White	50.8%	541
Woodlawn Elementary School	Black	43.8%	267