Independent rankings of Pre-K schools in St. Petersburg, built from director interviews and verified data — never from school payments.
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Looking for the best pre-k schools in St. Petersburg? We track 33 K-12 options that serve pre-k grades. Annual tuition ranges from $4.2K/yr to $26.8K/yr, with a median of $10.2K/yr across schools that publish a number. St. Petersburg has the highest concentration with 17 schools, followed by Saint Petersburg (8). 33 of these schools accept Florida Step Up / FES scholarships — roughly 100% of the list — so families using state-funded scholarships have real choice here.
Admissions processes vary by school. AdmitCompass surfaces the deadlines, test requirements, and tuition for each campus on its detail page, so families can build a balanced reach / target / safety list. Every school is re-verified through direct outreach to admissions teams; data is refreshed on a 180-day cadence and timestamped on each profile.
See also: Under $20K list, Tuition-Free.
We rank by how well each school fits your family — academics, cost, distance, and values. Never by size, popularity, or payment (schools can’t pay for rank). The coarse admission-likelihood band is always free.
St. Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades PK3-12·~1,112 students
State-licensed
A solid match — families like yours are often admitted here.
St. Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades PK-12·~900 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
St. Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades PK-12·~747 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
St. Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades K-12·~541 students
State-licensed
A solid match — families like yours are often admitted here.
Saint Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades KG-08·~354 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
St. Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades PK-08·~201 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
Saint Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades KG-08·~199 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
St. Pete Beach·Pinellas County·Grades PK-06·~101 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
St. Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades KG-12·~85 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
St Petersburg·Pinellas County·Grades PK-06·~82 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
Built relationships, not scrapers. AdmitCompass ranks schools using a composite score that blends four signals: enrollment size (a proxy for stability and program breadth), tuition reasonableness within the local market, freshness of our most recent verification, and a small bonus for schools with full admissions detail published on their profile.
Public data comes from the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE), the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and each school's own admissions pages. The information that actually matters to most families — acceptance rates, deadlines, what a director cares about — comes from direct interviews with school directors and admissions coaches across our active markets.
We do not publish scoring weights or per-axis thresholds. That keeps the moat intact: the rankings reflect actual conversations with people inside schools, not a formula anyone with a crawler could clone. Every profile is re-verified on a 180-day cadence, and the "last updated" date is timestamped on every school page.
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