APOLLO BEACH K-8 SCHOOL

Set in APOLLO BEACH, Florida, APOLLO BEACH K-8 SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary campus, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. It teaches 794 students across grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 31% above the state mean of about 604.

HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools in total, collectively educating 221,318 students. APOLLO BEACH K-8 SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, APOLLO BEACH K-8 SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 26% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, APOLLO BEACH K-8 SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.2%, the actual is 67.8%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put 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%. APOLLO BEACH K-8 SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

The closest other public school is DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 2.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, APOLLO BEACH K-8 SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. APOLLO BEACH K-8 SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 27% since 2018, when it stood at 623 (now 794). Over the same period, the White share declined from 65% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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