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What's one thing FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
428
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000949
FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2014 E DIANA ST, TAMPA, FL 33610 · (813) 276-5573 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL428 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
349 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 37 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
53%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
FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→SLIGH MIDDLE 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
37.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +10.4pp since 2023
Math
39.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.8% | 39.2% |
| 2023-24 | 27.4% | 35.3% |
% 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
33.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (33.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 428 | 81.5% | 33.2% |
| JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 388 | 82.7% | 22.8% |
| ROBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 472 | 82.4% | 27.7% |
| LAKE WESTON ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 415 | 79.5% | 51.2% |
| PIONEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BELLE GLADE | 408 | 85.8% | 41.6% |
| INWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINTER HAVEN | 423 | 82.3% | 37.0% |
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 FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.2% | #2,017 of 2,136 | #142 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.2% | #1,942 of 2,149 ▲ 20 | #139 of 176 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #1,858 of 2,149 ▲ 198 | #131 of 176 ▲ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 428 | #1,687 of 2,267 | #135 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.1:1 | #1,149 of 2,077 | #96 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.2% | #1,219 of 2,108 | #122 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.5% | #126 of 2,188 | #10 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.0% | #892 of 1,374 | #82 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
428
+34 (+9%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 604
Student : Teacher
16.1:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 428 | 26.6 | 16.1:1 | 82% (349) |
| 2023-24 | 387 | 28 | 13.8:1 | 82% (319) |
| 2022-23 | 423 | 25 | 16.9:1 | 86% (364) |
| 2020-21 | 394 | 35 | 11.3:1 | 97% (382) |
| 2017-18 | 481 | 44 | 10.9:1 | 95% (459) |
| 2015-16 | 494 | 48 | 10.3:1 | 94% (462) |
| 2010-11 | 488 | 49 | 10.0:1 | 94% (457) |
| 2000-01 | 743 | 63 | 11.8:1 | 91% (675) |
| 1990-91 | 604 | 51 | 11.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school with an address in TAMPA, Florida. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 428 students enrolled. It has 29% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Florida (about 604).
HILLSBOROUGH has a total of 300 schools and 221,318 students, FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
Of every 100 students at FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 62 are Black. The rest of enrollment is 29% Hispanic, 4% White, and 4% multiracial. Among all residents of Hillsborough County, the Black share is about 16%. The diversity index for FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 53%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 26.6 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 16.1:1. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is 1.4 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 82%. Among public schools in Hillsborough County, the average eligibility rate is 43%.
FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 33.2%, compared with a predicted 40.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
Hillsborough County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $79,540, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. There are 320 public schools in the county, enrolling about 223,193, FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
About 0.1 miles separate FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL. The five-mile area around FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 33.2% against a local average of 37.6%.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
The school's enrollment rose 9% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (16.1:1) than in 2020-21 (11.3:1).
The allk12 page for FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Foster Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 5 states are named Foster Elementary. FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 11.
- Foster Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 524 students
- Foster ElementarySan Diego, CA · 518 students
- Foster ElementaryBaldwin Park, CA · 430 students
- Foster ElementaryCompton, CA · 398 students
- Foster Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 370 students
Nearby schools
- SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 761
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS0.8 mi · 46
- CARVER EXCEPTIONAL CENTER0.9 mi · 46
- CLEVELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 195
- MIDDLETON HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,637
- SEMINOLE HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 375
Frequently asked questions
About FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 428 students in grades PK-05.
Is FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.1:1.
What is the student diversity at FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 4% White, 29% Hispanic, 62% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.