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HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE
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Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE
HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in TAMPA, Florida, run under HILLSBOROUGH, serves 819 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 36% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.
HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools in total, collectively educating 221,318 students. HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE is one of those campuses.
Demographically, HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%. Other groups include 16% White, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 62.0%, a residual of -3.3 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).
ALONSO HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.
The campus sits in a residential setting. HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 6%: 774 students in 2018 compared to 819 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 57% to 75% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.
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