CITRUS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a mid-tier elementary campus in TAMPA, Florida, CITRUS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL educates 514 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), CITRUS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, CITRUS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 27% White, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CITRUS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.3%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which CITRUS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

PLATO COLLEGIATE ACADEMY TAMPA 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, CITRUS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CITRUS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 10%, going from 569 students in 2018 to 514 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 44% to 52%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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