KIMBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 8406 N 46TH ST, in TAMPA, Florida, KIMBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary school that educates 339 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so KIMBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 44% smaller than that benchmark.

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

On demographics, KIMBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black, at 55% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 32% Hispanic, 8% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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, On a poverty-adjusted basis, KIMBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.3%; actual is 18.7%, a gap of -22.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household income runs about $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), KIMBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KIMBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, KIMBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 6-year window. Over the past 6-year window, the student count edged down 34%: 514 students in 2018 compared to 339 in 2024. Black enrollment moved from 62% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2024.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.