BELL CREEK ACADEMY

Set in RIVERVIEW, Florida, BELL CREEK ACADEMY is a middle-of-the-pack senior high, run under HILLSBOROUGH. It teaches 1,125 students across grades 6 through 12.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), BELL CREEK ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BELL CREEK ACADEMY lists that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 8% of students at BELL CREEK ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BELL CREEK ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 77.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 82.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for Hillsborough County shows 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%. BELL CREEK ACADEMY is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BELL CREEK ACADEMY comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. BELL CREEK ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BELL CREEK ACADEMY has rose 188%, going from 391 students in 2018 to 1,125 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 49% to 41%. Class-load math has grew: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 25.3:1 in 2025.

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