LOPEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LOPEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of cozy scale in SEFFNER, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH, instructing 511 students in grades pre-K through 5.

HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools in total, collectively educating 221,318 students. LOPEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LOPEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 38% White, 16% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, LOPEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting LOPEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 63% 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 above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, LOPEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the broader community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which LOPEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is LOPEZ EXCEPTIONAL CENTER, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LOPEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LOPEZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 511 students in 2018 compared to 511 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

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