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Pinellas County · Florida

St. Petersburg, FL public schools

Enrollment, school count, staffing and per-pupil spending for Pinellas — federal education data, not a star rating.

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Quick answer

Pinellas is the primary public district for St. Petersburg, FL. It enrolls 93,702 students in 154 schools with 5,803 full-time-equivalent teachers, and spends $12,820 per pupil, 26% below the $17,320 median across the metros covered here.

Students enrolled
93,702NCES Common Core of Data, 2021-22
Schools in the district
154Operating school count
Students per teacher
16.1Enrollment ÷ FTE teachers, not class size
Spending per pupil
$12,820Total current expenditure, FY2020

Who pays for schools in St. Petersburg

Where the district's money comes from, FY2020.

Local revenue
55.1%
$663,342,000
State revenue
29.4%
$353,875,000
Federal revenue
15.5%
$186,028,000

Local revenue is mostly property tax, which is why the St. Petersburg property tax rate and school funding move together. Of every dollar spent, about 50 cents reaches instruction — teacher salaries, benefits and classroom materials — with the rest covering transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Reading the St. Petersburg numbers

What the 2021-22 NCES and FY2020 Census finance numbers say about this district.

$12,820 per pupil is 26% below the $17,320 metro median; only 15% of tracked districts spend less. Instruction takes 50 cents of each dollar — $6,394 per student — with the remainder on transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Funding is split roughly evenly — 55.1% local, 29.4% state — so both the local tax base and the FL aid formula matter to what this district can spend. Federal dollars are an outsized 15.5% of revenue, a share that tracks concentrated student poverty (Title I) and special-education enrollment.

93,702 students across 154 schools averages 608 students per building, and the district is larger than the typical district covered here (44,998 students). The 16.1:1 student-to-teacher ratio is ordinary for this set of districts (median 15.2:1). It counts all FTE teachers district-wide, so actual class sizes run higher.

What this data covers

Read this before comparing districts.

Pinellas is a large city district; figures are the district total (LEAID 1201560) and individual schools inside it vary widely. Independently authorised charter schools, private schools and regional vocational programs are counted separately by NCES and are not in these totals. Enrollment is the 2021-22 NCES collection; dollars are the FY2020 Census F-33 survey, the latest complete national release. The two years differ, so per-pupil spending is a stable indicator rather than a live budget line.

Other St. Petersburg datasets on this site.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data + Census F-33, via Urban Institute Education Data · rates as published for 2021-22 / FY2020

NCES LEAID 1201560. Finance figures are Census Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33) totals as redistributed by the Urban Institute Education Data API.