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Enrollment
589
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000958
BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
9720 WILSKY BLVD, TAMPA, FL 33615 · (813) 872-5387 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL589 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
403 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 37 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
44.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.3pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.8% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.5% | 47.6% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (43.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 589 | 68.4% | 43.4% |
| HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 564 | 65.1% | 33.0% |
| CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 731 | 67.7% | 46.8% |
| THREE POINTS ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 447 | 69.1% | 40.8% |
| FORSYTH WOODS ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 507 | 72.2% | 43.4% |
| PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 508 | 67.3% | 49.8% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #1,666 of 2,136 | #103 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,688 of 2,149 ▼ 180 | #109 of 176 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.8% | #1,556 of 2,149 ▲ 101 | #101 of 176 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 589 | #1,066 of 2,267 | #87 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #666 of 2,077 | #50 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.6% | #1,804 of 2,108 | #159 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.4% | #524 of 2,188 | #58 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.7% | #1,052 of 1,374 | #96 of 124 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
589
+64 (+12%) vs 2020
-44% since 1990-91, when it was 1,055
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 12.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 589 | 39.4 | 14.9:1 | 68% (403) |
| 2023-24 | 605 | 34 | 17.8:1 | 72% (436) |
| 2022-23 | 558 | 35 | 15.9:1 | 72% (403) |
| 2020-21 | 525 | 42 | 12.5:1 | 88% (461) |
| 2017-18 | 638 | 54 | 11.8:1 | 85% (545) |
| 2015-16 | 671 | 55 | 12.2:1 | 84% (565) |
| 2010-11 | 741 | 59 | 12.6:1 | 77% (567) |
| 2000-01 | 859 | 50 | 17.2:1 | 64% (547) |
| 1990-91 | 1,055 | 57 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school with a street address in TAMPA, Florida. Enrollment totals 589 students across pre-K through 5.
BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the 300 schools that make up HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students in total).
Hispanic students account for 81% of the school's enrollment. Other reported shares: 7% White, 6% Black, and 4% Asian. Hillsborough County's residents are about 30% Hispanic, 51 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 33, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 14.9:1 is based on 39.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. In all, 68% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 43% for public schools in Hillsborough County.
Test results at BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are 3.5 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (43.4% actual, 46.9% predicted).
In the wider Hillsborough County area, the median household earns about $79,540 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Hillsborough County with 319 other public schools.
HENDERSON HAMMOCK CHARTER SCHOOL sits about 1.2 miles from BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
Federal data place BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had a net gain of 64 students, or 12%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.5:1 in 2020-21, and 14.9:1 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HILLSBOROUGH
- FLORIDA CONNECTIONS ACADEMYCombined · 5,748 students
- JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,602 students
- NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,157 students
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in TAMPA
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- SICKLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,398 students
- PLANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,391 students
- TAMPA BAY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,181 students
- WHARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,130 students
- GAITHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,040 students
Other Bellamy Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Bellamy Elementary. BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLROME, NY · 544 students
Nearby schools
- HENDERSON HAMMOCK CHARTER SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,154
- WOODBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 602
- MORGAN WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 522
- WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 876
- HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE1.8 mi · 819
- DAVIDSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 969
Frequently asked questions
About BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 589 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.9:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 7% White, 81% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by HILLSBOROUGH in Hillsborough County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.