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BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in LITHIA, Florida, run under HILLSBOROUGH, instructing 826 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 37% above that benchmark.
HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools in total, collectively educating 221,318 students. BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 58%. The remainder comes out to 20% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 9% multiracial, 4% Black.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.
With demographic context factored in, BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 87.4%.
In the area at large, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household earnings sit near $79,540, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 73.6%.
BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Over the past 7-year window. BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 869 (now 826). White enrollment moved from 71% to 58% across the same window.
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