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BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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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 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in TAMPA, Florida, part of HILLSBOROUGH. Current enrollment sits at 852 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 41% larger than that benchmark.
BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that enrolls 221,318 students overall.
Looking at the student body, BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder reads as 16% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 51% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.
With demographic context factored in, BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.0%, the actual is 87.6%, a residual of +11.6 points.
In the area at large, 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%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is FARNELL MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 64.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 12%, going from 967 students in 2018 to 852 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 67% to 61% over that span.
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