The top reported proficiency rate is 61% in English language arts. The lowest is 53% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Mcmullen-booth Elementary School
McMullen-Booth Elementary sits on Union Street in Clearwater, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade within Pinellas County Schools. The school is a regular public elementary, not a charter or magnet, and draws from a genuinely diverse student body: white students make up the largest single group, followed by Hispanic students, with Black students and smaller multiracial and Asian populations also represented. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a community with real economic need.
On Florida's FAST assessments for the most recent school year, McMullen-Booth's proficiency results land in the middle range. ELA proficiency across grades three through five runs somewhat above half of tested students in each grade, with fourth grade showing the strongest performance among the three. Math results are close to the same band, with third grade performing a bit higher than fourth and fifth. Fifth-grade science proficiency comes in at a similar level. These results are neither a cause for alarm nor a standout story; they sit in the modest-majority range, meaning more students are reaching proficiency than not, but a meaningful share are not. Given that Pinellas County Schools recently earned its first-ever "A" state grade from the Florida Department of Education, publicly reported as tied to a new custom ELA curriculum following a science-of-reading approach, a parent would reasonably ask the school directly how that district-level momentum is showing up in classroom instruction here, and what support is available for students who are not yet at grade level. The district did not report English learner or IEP rates for this school, so the full picture of how it serves students with additional needs is not visible from this data.
Comparison data across Pinellas County's districts was not usable for this school because the county contains only one district-level entity in the data set, so a peer ranking is not available here.
The school's neighborhood sits within Clearwater, a mid-sized Pinellas County city with a distinct split between a walkable, actively redeveloping downtown core along Cleveland Street and the waterfront, and the more car-dependent residential and commercial corridors that surround it. McMullen-Booth's Union Street address is in a residential area away from the downtown activity. Clearwater's major employers include a global IT distributor headquartered in the city, Honeywell Aerospace manufacturing, and medical-technology firms, giving the broader area an employment base that spans professional services to manufacturing.
For families weighing homeownership near the school, the local housing market shows home values in the zip code running slightly below the statewide benchmark and meaningfully below where they were a year ago, a trend worth watching in either direction. Rents have also softened modestly year over year. The rent-to-income ratio sits near the edge of what housing economists consider affordable. Anyone buying here should factor in that Clearwater's downtown is in the middle of a substantial redevelopment wave, with new residential towers, a new city hall, a hotel, and transit infrastructure all under construction or recently completed, changes that tend to shift neighborhood character and property values over a multi-year horizon.
One cost a prospective homebuying family in the district should know: Pinellas voters in late 2024 renewed and expanded the local school property tax, publicly reported as doubling the millage rate for a multi-year term. The revenue funds teacher and support-staff bonuses and programs including reading, music, art, and technology. This is a real line on a property tax bill and also a source of program stability that families can rely on continuing through the term of the renewal.
Graduation rate and chronic absenteeism data were not available for McMullen-Booth, which is expected given that the school serves only pre-K through fifth grade. Multi-year trend data was also absent, so it is not possible to characterize whether performance has been moving in any particular direction. Information on specific programs, staffing ratios, and discipline was not provided in the data available.
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