BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an one-room-style elementary school in TAMPA, Florida, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. The school serves 138 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 77% below typical.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 36% Black, 9% White, 9% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.4%; this one delivers 36.6%.

Across the wider county, Hillsborough County reports that median household income runs about $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WALTON ACADEMY, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 64%, going from 388 students in 2018 to 138 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 71% to 36%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 8.6:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.