Enrollment
180
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000941
DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2618 CORRINE ST, TAMPA, FL 33605 · (813) 276-5779 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL180 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
132 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 26 | 14% |
| Kindergarten | 27 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 17 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 30 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 21 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 30 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (27) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (30).
Student demographics
41%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
DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→DOWDELL MIDDLE MAGNET 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
49.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.5pp since 2023
Math
74.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.9% | 74.6% |
| 2023-24 | 44.4% | 66.4% |
% 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
55.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (55.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 180 | 73.3% | 55.7% |
| HARLEM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 209 | 66.5% | 24.3% |
| EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING SERVICES FORT MYERS | 187 | 73.8% | N/A |
| NORTH GLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI GARDENS | 216 | 63.4% | 45.8% |
| MONTESSORI ACADEMYOF EARLY ENRICHMENT INC GREENACRES | 192 | 62.5% | 45.6% |
| HILLTOP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAUCHULA | 298 | 76.8% | 43.7% |
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 DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #1,054 of 2,136 | #63 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.6% | #468 of 2,149 ▲ 212 | #33 of 176 ▲ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.9% | #1,314 of 2,149 ▲ 111 | #83 of 176 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 180 | #2,127 of 2,267 | #171 of 182 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.3% | #334 of 2,188 | #33 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.3% | #238 of 1,374 | #22 of 124 |
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
180
-49 (-21%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 338
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 180 | 16.6 | 10.8:1 | 73% (132) |
| 2023-24 | 180 | 19 | 9.5:1 | 75% (135) |
| 2022-23 | 194 | 17 | 11.4:1 | 78% (151) |
| 2020-21 | 229 | 19 | 12.1:1 | 93% (212) |
| 2017-18 | 251 | 24 | 10.5:1 | 95% (239) |
| 2015-16 | 241 | 30 | 8.0:1 | 98% (236) |
| 2010-11 | 193 | 19 | 10.2:1 | 95% (183) |
| 2000-01 | 325 | 22 | 14.8:1 | 93% (301) |
| 1990-91 | 338 | 23 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school in Florida, with an address in TAMPA. Its 180 students are spread across pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 70% smaller than the 604 average for elementary schools in Florida.
Besides DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, HILLSBOROUGH runs 299 other schools. The district enrolls 221,318 students.
At 74%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. Other students are 16% Black and 9% White. By comparison, Hillsborough County residents are about 30% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 41%.
Federal data list 16.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 10.8:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, higher than at this school. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 73%. For comparison, public schools in Hillsborough County average 43%.
DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 55.7% is 11.2 points above the 44.4% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Federal survey data for Hillsborough County show that median household income is about $79,540, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. A total of 320 public schools operate in Hillsborough County, serving about 223,193 students.
The closest public school, SHORE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL, is about 0.8 miles from DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 2nd among 6 schools close by.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 229 to 180. Students per teacher fell from 12.1 in 2020-21 to 10.8 in 2024-25.
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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 Desoto Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Desoto Elementary. DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- DeSoto Elementary SchoolDe Soto, IL · 198 students
Nearby schools
- SHORE ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL0.8 mi · 330
- AMI KIDS TAMPA1.0 mi · 16
- CHANNELSIDE ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE1.3 mi · 293
- ESE BIRTH THRU AGE 51.4 mi · 52
- PRE-K ESE COMMUNITY PEEPS1.4 mi · 105
- WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 276
Frequently asked questions
About DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 180 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.8:1 students per teacher at DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 9% White, 74% Hispanic, 16% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DESOTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by HILLSBOROUGH in Hillsborough County.
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