LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY

LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY, a medium-sized K-5 school in RUSKIN, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH, works with 813 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 35% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that enrolls 221,318 students overall.

On demographics, LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 35% White, 20% Black, 6% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 76.4%; actual is 51.3%, a gap of -25.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 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), LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY is one campus in the mix.

LENNARD HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 46.8%.

The school occupies a suburban site. LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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