ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of medium-sized scale in VALRICO, Florida, part of HILLSBOROUGH, educateing 568 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black. Compared to Hillsborough County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.8%, the actual is 66.6%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BLOOMINGDALE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 63.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 12%, going from 644 students in 2018 to 568 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 23% to 34%.

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