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What's the one class at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
957
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087004883
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
11605 CITRUS PARK DR, TAMPA, FL 33626 · (813) 854-6031 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL957 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
225 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 | 17 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 150 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 139 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 170 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 165 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 133 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 183 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (150) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (183).
Student demographics
69%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
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→FARNELL MIDDLE SCHOOL
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
65.7%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.9pp since 2023
Math
79.9%
FL avg 58.9% . -1.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.7% | 79.9% |
| 2023-24 | 70.6% | 81.4% |
% 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
73.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (73.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 957 | 23.5% | 73.0% |
| WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SANFORD | 896 | 23.9% | 76.2% |
| DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAINT JOHNS | 1,090 | 21.7% | 79.8% |
| HEATHROW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE MARY | 713 | 18.9% | 81.0% |
| UNION PARK CHARTER ACADEMY WESLEY CHAPEL | 803 | 24.7% | 63.7% |
| WARDS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST AUGUSTINE | 1,156 | 21.5% | 70.4% |
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 DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #352 of 2,136 | #25 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.9% | #286 of 2,149 ▼ 94 | #21 of 176 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.7% | #598 of 2,149 ▼ 256 | #40 of 176 ▼ 14 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 957 | #235 of 2,267 | #14 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #928 of 2,077 | #76 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.5% | #315 of 2,108 | #45 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.5% | #1,940 of 2,188 | #141 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.4% | #606 of 621 | #41 of 41 |
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
957
+111 (+13%) vs 2020
-2% since 2010-11, when it was 977
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 957 | 61.6 | 15.5:1 | 24% (225) |
| 2023-24 | 993 | 63 | 15.8:1 | 26% (256) |
| 2022-23 | 989 | 59 | 16.8:1 | 22% (214) |
| 2020-21 | 846 | 62 | 13.7:1 | 25% (212) |
| 2017-18 | 953 | 63 | 15.1:1 | 25% (235) |
| 2015-16 | 933 | 65 | 14.3:1 | 26% (246) |
| 2010-11 | 977 | 67 | 14.6:1 | 20% (194) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school with a street address in TAMPA, Florida. The school had 957 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Florida is about 604, so this school runs 58% larger than that.
HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools with a combined 221,318 students. DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
Enrollment at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is mixed, with White students the largest group at 45%. Beyond that, enrollment is 27% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. By the diversity index, DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 69%.
Federal staffing data show 61.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and a ratio of 15.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, higher than at this school. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 24% of enrollment. The gap from the 43% average for public schools in Hillsborough County is 19 points.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's results are 3.6 points above predicted: 73.0% against 69.4%.
In Hillsborough County (population about 1,522,748), median household income is about $79,540, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. A total of 320 public schools operate in Hillsborough County, serving about 223,193 students.
The closest other public school is BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.0 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 73.0% against a local average of 62.7%.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count climbed from 846 to 957. Federal data show the ratio rising from 13.7:1 to 15.5:1.
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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 Deer Park Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 6 states are named Deer Park Elementary. DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 8.
- DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNEW PORT RICHEY, FL · 524 students
- Deer Park Elementary SchoolDEER PARK, TX · 661 students
- Deer Park ElementaryCentreville, VA · 522 students
- Deer Park Elementary SchoolOwensboro, KY · 480 students
- Deer Park ElementaryNewport News, VA · 433 students
Nearby schools
- BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 852
- FARNELL MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,184
- DAVIDSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 969
- LOWRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 755
- WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 876
- SICKLES HIGH SCHOOL2.3 mi · 2,398
Frequently asked questions
About DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 957 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.5:1 students per teacher at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 45% White, 27% Hispanic, 3% Black, 19% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.