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Enrollment
457
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087007633
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH
304 W PROSSER DR, PLANT CITY, FL 33563 · (813) 567-0801 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL457 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 27% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
,
Teacher data unavailable
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
260 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 38 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 47 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 40 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 33% larger than its 8th grade class (40).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
48.2%
FL avg 56.7% . -7.6pp since 2023
Math
38.2%
FL avg 58.9% . -14.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.2% | 38.2% |
| 2023-24 | 55.8% | 52.6% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH's state test result (47.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH this school | 457 | 56.9% | 47.9% |
| SHADOWLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 470 | 59.1% | 55.4% |
| SPRING LAKE ELEMENTARY OCOEE | 445 | 61.8% | 42.4% |
| AVALON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 363 | 58.7% | 46.8% |
| P. M. WELLS CHARTER ACADEMY KISSIMMEE | 403 | 51.9% | 46.1% |
| GOLDEN TERRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAPLES | 484 | 53.1% | 45.6% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #1,439 of 2,136 | #86 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.2% | #1,971 of 2,149 ▼ 705 | #143 of 176 ▼ 64 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #1,382 of 2,149 ▼ 474 | #87 of 176 ▼ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 457 | #1,587 of 2,267 | #128 of 182 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.8% | #1,521 of 2,108 | #142 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.9% | #1,016 of 2,188 | #86 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +47.4% | #64 of 621 | #7 of 41 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
457
-9 (-2%) vs 2020
+50% since 2010-11, when it was 304
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 457 | N/A | N/A | 57% (260) |
| 2023-24 | 459 | 26 | 17.6:1 | 68% (310) |
| 2022-23 | 469 | 25 | 18.8:1 | 79% (371) |
| 2020-21 | 466 | 24 | 19.4:1 | 76% (354) |
| 2017-18 | 310 | 25 | 12.4:1 | 43% (132) |
| 2015-16 | 301 | 24 | 12.5:1 | 29% (86) |
| 2010-11 | 304 | 10 | 30.4:1 | 42% (129) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH.
About ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH is one of the public schools in PLANT CITY, Florida. It is a low-enrollment elementary school. In all, 457 students attend the school in pre-K through 8. That is 24% below the average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
District-wide, HILLSBOROUGH has 300 schools and 221,318 students.
The largest group at ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH is Hispanic students, at 71%. Other groups make up 17% White, 9% Black, and 2% multiracial. County-wide, 30% of Hillsborough County residents are Hispanic. The diversity index for ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH is 46%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
By family income, 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 43% for public schools in Hillsborough County.
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 27% of Florida public elementary schools.
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH scores 47.9% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 52.7%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Hillsborough County show that median household income comes to about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. The county's public schools total 320, with about 223,193 students.
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH's closest public school neighbor is BURNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles of ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH, there are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Federal data place ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 457, starting from 466.
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Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
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- FLORIDA CONNECTIONS ACADEMYCombined · 5,748 students
- JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,602 students
- NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,157 students
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in PLANT CITY
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- DURANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,504 students
- TOMLIN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,340 students
- MARSHALL MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOLMiddle · 1,066 students
- TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,000 students
- WALDEN LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 809 students
Nearby schools
- BURNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 357
- SIMMONS EXCEPTIONAL CENTER0.7 mi · 29
- SIMMONS CAREER CENTER0.7 mi · 127
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 2,572
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL1.0 mi · 510
- JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 451
Frequently asked questions
About ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGHHow large is ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH?
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH enrolls approximately 457 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH serve?
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH serves grades PK-08.
How diverse is ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH?
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH reports a student body of 17% White, 71% Hispanic, 9% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH in?
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH is part of HILLSBOROUGH.
What city is ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH in?
ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH is located in PLANT CITY, FL.
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