ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in TAMPA, Florida, ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 579 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH.

Within HILLSBOROUGH, which oversees 300 schools and 221,318 students, ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 4% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.4%, the actual is 50.7%, a residual of +4.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PIERCE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 38.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 585 (now 579). Class-load math has widened: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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