IDEA HOPE

Located at 5050 E 10TH AVE, in TAMPA, Florida, IDEA HOPE is a well-populated multi-level school that instructs 790 students (grades K through 12), operated by IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Enrollment runs roughly 124% bigger than the state mean of about 353.

IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 4,602 students. IDEA HOPE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, IDEA HOPE reports that Black students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder comes out to 34% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 16% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, IDEA HOPE logs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at IDEA HOPE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, IDEA HOPE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household earnings sit near $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), IDEA HOPE is one campus in the mix.

OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IDEA HOPE. On composite proficiency, IDEA HOPE comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.8%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. IDEA HOPE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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