JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary school in TAMPA, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH, works with 388 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% below the state mean of about 604.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 7% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.7%; this one comes in at 22.8%, -16.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is WILLIAMS MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 46%, going from 718 students in 2018 to 388 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 79% to 64% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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