Northeast High, 5500 16th St. N: grades 9 to 12, 1,684 students in 2024-25, an A in Florida's 2026 school grades. Zone, academies, bell times.

Last checked Oct. 11, 2026. Sources: the school’s website, Pinellas County Schools’ zoning maps, 2026-27 bell times, student calendar and magnet and fundamental programs page, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades file, the federal NCES school directory and the FHSAA’s 2026-27 football assignments.

Northeast High is the Pinellas County Schools high school for grades 9 to 12 at 5500 16th St. N, inside St. Petersburg city limits. Its teams are the Vikings.

Who to call
Address 5500 16th St. N, St. Petersburg, FL 33703
Phone 727-570-3138
Grades 9 to 12
District Pinellas County Schools
State school number 52-2641

Principal

Principal Michael Vasallo, according to the school’s administration page.

Enrollment and teachers

The federal NCES directory counted 1,684 students in the 2024-25 school year, with 82 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers. That is about 21 students per teacher. The year before, the count was 1,762.

The state’s 2026 grades file lists 69.1% 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 high schools, graduation and college and career acceleration. The file sets an A for high schools at 65% of points or more, so Northeast cleared the line exactly.

School year Grade
2025-26 A (65% of possible points)
2024-25 B
2023-24 B

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

  • English language arts: 58%
  • Math: 46%
  • Science: 76%
  • Social studies: 77%

The file gives a graduation rate of 99% for 2024-25, and 71% on college and career acceleration (students earning credit through programs such as AP, IB, AICE, dual enrollment or industry certifications).

The full report card is on the state’s Florida school report cards site. It is an interactive dashboard; the figures above come from the downloadable file.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

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

Of the 153,244 St. Petersburg address points in Pinellas County’s address layer, 28,750 (18.8%) fall inside the Northeast zone on that map. An address point can be a house, an apartment or a business.

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

  • Middle school: Meadowlawn Middle (100%).
  • Elementary school: Shore Acres (30%), Sawgrass Lake (22%), Lynch (20%), John M. Sexton (16%) and North Shore (12%).

The Northeast zone itself does not change under the district’s Planning for Progress recommendations, which the School Board votes on at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13. Its elementary schools would:

  • John M. Sexton Elementary would close at the end of 2026-27, with its zone split between Lynch Elementary to the north and Woodlawn Elementary to the south. At its Oct. 6 workshop, the board also looked at an alternative that keeps Sexton open and closes Woodlawn instead.
  • Lynch and Sawgrass Lake would trade a small area of their zones in 2027-28.

Programs

The district’s 2026-27 magnet guide lists these Northeast programs, which students apply to during the district’s application window, Jan. 5-15, 2027, for 2027-28:

  • Academy of Finance: banking, accounting, economics and financial planning, with an on-campus credit union branch.
  • Academy of Information Technology (AOIT): programming, networking, cybersecurity and web design, with AP Computer Science Principles.
  • Culinary Arts.
  • Automotive Academy: a partnership among Largo High, Northeast High and Pinellas Technical College.

Sports and activities

For football in 2026-27, Northeast plays in Class 4A, Region 3, District 10 with Clearwater, Dixie Hollins, Osceola (Seminole), Pinellas Park (Largo) and St. Petersburg, according to the FHSAA’s assignments.

The school’s sports page lists bowling, cross country, boys golf, volleyball, football, swimming and diving and cheerleading in the fall; boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer and wrestling in the winter; and boys and girls lacrosse, boys and girls tennis, track and field, girls flag football, baseball and softball in the spring.

Scores and schedules: our Friday night football page and the scoreboard.

Calendar and bell times

Classes run 7:25 a.m. to 1:55 p.m., according to the district’s 2026-27 bell times. Northeast 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, and the second semester begins Tuesday, Jan. 5
  • Monday, Jan. 18, 2027: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no school
  • Monday, Feb. 15, 2027: Presidents 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 Northeast High serve?

Grades 9 to 12. Northeast is a Pinellas County Schools high school at 5500 16th St. N in St. Petersburg.

What is Northeast High’s school grade?

Northeast earned an A in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 65% of possible points. It earned a B in 2025 and 2024.

What time does Northeast High start?

Classes run 7:25 a.m. to 1:55 p.m. in 2026-27, according to the district’s bell times.

Which middle school feeds into Northeast High?

On the district’s zoning maps, every St. Petersburg address in the Northeast zone is in the Meadowlawn Middle zone.