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EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 12 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of cozy scale in TAMPA, Florida, run under HILLSBOROUGH, hosting 488 students in grades pre-K through 5.
EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that enrolls 221,318 students overall.
Demographically, EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 11% Black, 5% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.8%, the actual is 38.6%, a residual of -7.3 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) logs that median household income runs about $79,540, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.6%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Over the past 7-year window. EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 562 (now 488). Class-load math has loosened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.
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