KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a compact primary school in BRANDON, Florida, KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 437 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by HILLSBOROUGH. Enrollment runs roughly 28% below the state mean of about 604.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 30% Black, 21% White, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. 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 commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.6%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of -10.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household earnings sit near $79,540, 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 KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SYMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 7%, going from 472 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment expanded from 19% to 30% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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