GIBSONTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 7723 GIBSONTON DR, in GIBSONTON, Florida, GIBSONTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary campus that enrolls 499 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by HILLSBOROUGH.

HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools in total, collectively educating 221,318 students. GIBSONTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GIBSONTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 24% White, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, GIBSONTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.7%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put median household earnings sit near $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), GIBSONTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

RIVERVIEW ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GIBSONTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, GIBSONTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GIBSONTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 14%, going from 581 students in 2018 to 499 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 37% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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