BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 4925 WEBB RD, in TAMPA, Florida, BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that caters to 572 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by HILLSBOROUGH.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Beyond that, the school shows 9% White, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.9%; actual is 32.1%, a gap of -17.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

DICKENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 20%, going from 715 students in 2018 to 572 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 57% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

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