LANIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 4704 W MONTGOMERY AVE, in TAMPA, Florida, LANIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small primary school that works with 282 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by HILLSBOROUGH. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so LANIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 53% below that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, LANIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 27% White, 15% Black, 15% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LANIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at LANIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LANIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.9%, the actual is 59.1%, a residual of +6.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household income runs about $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), LANIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MONROE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LANIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 51.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 319 students in 2018 compared to 282 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 27% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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