About Us

Bay Vista Fundamental

 Home of the Jaguars

 

Address: 5900 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. S, St. Petersburg, FL 33705

 Phone: (727) 893-2335 

 Fax: (727) 893-1800

 Pinellas County Schools Administration: (727) 588-6000

 Principal: Carlmon Jones

 School Hours: 8:15 am - 2:25 pm, Monday - Friday

 R'Club: 6:30 am - 6:00pm - (727) 433-4286 

 

About Bay Vista Fundamental

As a school of choice, Bay Vista Fundamental emphasizes a “back to basics” structure in a modern way by emphasizing student responsibility, parental involvement/ requirements, and positive home-school connectedness through a rigorous approach to learning. We strive to deepen the students' learning experience by teaching them to think critically about school and the world we live in. The school, parents, and students work together to build relationships to foster learning within all our students, as we are a big school with a small community feel. 

 

Points of Pride

• Consistently outperformed district and state averages on state assessments.
• Majority of teachers are Micro-Credential Gifted Certified or Gifted Endorsed
• Cluster Grouping and Differentiation Model
• Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program Participant
• Gifted students participate in community-geared projects to collect or raise donations for pets, homeless shelters, the Ronald McDonald House, and various organizations while logging over 1,000 volunteer hours each year
• Grade 3 students participate in the district Gifted Creativity Olympics and our 4th and 5th graders routinely participate in the South Regional District Gifted Math Meet and have placed in every math meet since 2006 Robust Volunteer Program & community involvement including PTA and SAC Camp SEM (School Enrichment Model), an innovative student-led experience-based curriculum
• Ongoing staff professional development related to Equity and Diversity
• State PBIS Gold Model Award Winner (2020, 2021), State PBIS Resilience Award Winner (2021)