LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL

LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is a primary school of intimate scale in TAMPA, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH, hosting 376 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL sits 38% smaller than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL logs that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder looks like 8% Hispanic, 5% White. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL has 29 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 86% of students at LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 30.7%, a residual of -7.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

YOUNG MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 415 (now 376). Black enrollment moved from 81% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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