LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary campus in TEMPLE TERRACE, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH. The school enrolls 546 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

Demographically, LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 31% Hispanic, 21% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 16% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 35.3%, a residual of -13.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Hillsborough County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

GRECO MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEWIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 29%, going from 765 students in 2018 to 546 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 31% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.