DR CARTER G WOODSON K-8 SCHOOL

DR CARTER G WOODSON K-8 SCHOOL is a high-enrollment K-5 school in TAMPA, Florida, run under HILLSBOROUGH. The school enrolls 990 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 64% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

DR CARTER G WOODSON K-8 SCHOOL is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that serves 221,318 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DR CARTER G WOODSON K-8 SCHOOL lists that 46% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 44% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, DR CARTER G WOODSON K-8 SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.3%; actual is 29.3%, a gap of -16.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Hillsborough County reports that median household earnings sit near $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. DR CARTER G WOODSON K-8 SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

The closest other public school is NEW SPRINGS SCHOOLS, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DR CARTER G WOODSON K-8 SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, DR CARTER G WOODSON K-8 SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DR CARTER G WOODSON K-8 SCHOOL has grew 166%, going from 372 students in 2018 to 990 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 60% to 46%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

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