DR. KIRAN C. PATEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DR. KIRAN C. PATEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a compact primary school in TAMPA, Florida, operated by HILLSBOROUGH, hosts 510 students, covering grades K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, DR. KIRAN C. PATEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 20% Black, 16% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting DR. KIRAN C. PATEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 8% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DR. KIRAN C. PATEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.0%, the actual is 85.0%, a residual of +7.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) records that the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DR. KIRAN C. PATEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

TERRACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DR. KIRAN C. PATEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting. DR. KIRAN C. PATEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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