Bay Point Middle, 2151 62nd Ave. S: grades 6 to 8, 482 students this fall, an A in Florida's 2026 grades. It becomes a K-8 with Bay Point Elementary in 2027.

Last checked Oct. 11, 2026. Sources: the school’s website, Pinellas County Schools’ zoning maps, Planning for Progress pages, bell times and student calendar, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades file and the federal NCES school directory.

Bay Point Middle is the Pinellas County Schools middle school for grades 6 to 8 at 2151 62nd Ave. S, inside St. Petersburg city limits in the south end of the city. Its teams are the Falcons. In 2027-28 it becomes a K-8 school.

Who to call
Address 2151 62nd Ave. S, St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Phone 727-893-1153
Grades 6 to 8
District Pinellas County Schools
State school number 52-0171

Principal

Principal Cameshia Ware, according to the school’s principal’s page.

Enrollment and teachers

  • District count: 482 students on the 10-day count of Aug. 24, 2026, according to the district’s Azalea Middle recommendation, which gives the building room for 1,322 students, so it is 36% full.
  • Federal count: 519 students in the 2024-25 school year, with 30 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 17 students per teacher. The year before, the count was 655.

The state’s 2026 grades file lists all of the school’s students as economically disadvantaged.

State report card

Florida grades every public school A to F on the share of possible points it earns on the measures in the state’s 2026 school grades file: test scores, learning gains and, for middle schools, the share of students passing high school courses or industry certifications. The file sets an A for middle schools at 64% of points or more, so Bay Point reached it exactly.

School year Grade
2025-26 A (64% of possible points)
2024-25 B
2023-24 C

From the same file, the share of students scoring on grade level on the state tests in 2025-26:

  • English language arts: 48%
  • Math: 59%
  • Science: 49%
  • Social studies: 81%

The middle school acceleration figure was 81%. The full report card is on the state’s Florida school report cards site.

Becoming a K-8

On Feb. 24, 2026, the School Board approved merging Bay Point Elementary and Bay Point Middle into one K-8 school on the middle school campus for 2027-28, according to the district’s Planning for Progress page. The district’s January plan said the elementary campus would be leased to a community partner. Projected enrollment for the K-8 is 764 students in a building with room for 1,274.

  • Name: the board is set to vote on a name Tuesday, Oct. 13. The district received 206 qualifying suggestions; more than 100 included “Bay Point,” according to its Oct. 6 workshop presentation.
  • Magnet: the K-8 will host a Center for Emerging Technologies, with robotics, coding and leadership, according to the school’s new K-8 page. Families apply through Focus during the Jan. 5-15, 2027, window. A Discovery Night is set for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, and tours run Tuesdays at 8:45 a.m. through December.
  • Separate proposal, up for a vote Oct. 13: the Azalea Middle recommendation would move a small part of the Bay Point Middle zone to Azalea and move Bay Point’s medical pathway to Azalea for 2028-29.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Check any address with the district’s School Zone Locator, or see the district’s middle school zoning map. Zones do not follow city limits.

Of the 153,244 St. Petersburg address points in Pinellas County’s address layer, 26,442 (17.3%) fall inside the Bay Point Middle zone on that map.

The district does not publish a feeder list. Comparing its zoning maps (the middle and high school maps were first drawn for 2012-13; the elementary map is for 2026-27), the city addresses in this zone fall in these zones:

  • Elementary school: Maximo (35%), Lakewood (34%), Gulfport Montessori (27%) and Campbell Park (4%).
  • High school: Lakewood (94%) and Gibbs (6%).

Programs

  • Center for Advancement of the Sciences and Technology (CAST): a magnet for grades 6 to 8 with engineering, high school Spanish and computer science or arts pathways, according to the school’s CAST page. The district’s magnet guide gives feeder priority to students from Bay Point Elementary.
  • AVID.

Calendar and bell times

Classes run 7:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., according to the district’s 2026-27 bell times. Bay Point Middle is a first-tier school, so the district does not shift its times.

From the district’s 2026-27 student calendar:

  • Monday, Oct. 12: no school for students (a possible hurricane make-up day)
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11: no school (a possible hurricane make-up day)
  • Nov. 21-29: Thanksgiving week, no school
  • Dec. 19 to Jan. 3, 2027: winter holidays; Monday, Jan. 4, is also off
  • Monday, Jan. 18, 2027: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no school
  • March 13-21, 2027: spring holidays
  • Thursday, May 27, 2027: last day of school, with students released two hours early

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Bay Point Middle serve?

Grades 6 to 8 in 2026-27. In 2027-28 it merges with Bay Point Elementary into a K-8 school on the middle school campus, under a plan the School Board approved Feb. 24, 2026.

What is Bay Point Middle’s school grade?

Bay Point Middle earned an A in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 64% of possible points, up from a B in 2025 and a C in 2024.

Which high school does Bay Point Middle feed into?

On the district’s zoning maps, about 94% of the St. Petersburg addresses in the Bay Point Middle zone are zoned for Lakewood High.

What time does Bay Point Middle start?

Classes run 7:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. in 2026-27, according to the district’s bell times.