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.
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.
What this data covers
Read this before comparing districts.
Figures describe Pinellas (LEAID 1201560) as a whole, not any individual school. Charter schools authorised outside the district, private schools and regional vocational schools are not included. Where a city is served by a county-wide district, the county district is used and its catchment is wider than the city limits. Enrollment is from the 2021-22 NCES collection; money is from the FY2020 Census school finance survey, which is the most recent complete national release — the two years do not line up exactly, so per-pupil spending is a stable indicator rather than a current budget line.
Keep going
Other St. Petersburg data on this site.
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.