FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a roomy K-5 school in LITHIA, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH, enrolls 921 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 52% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that teaches 221,318 students overall.

Looking at the student body, FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 64%. The remainder reads as 18% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 51% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) shows that median household income runs about $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

BEVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 74.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FISHHAWK CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 10%, going from 1,021 students in 2018 to 921 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 72% to 64%.

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