MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
Located at 1721 N MACDILL AVE, in TAMPA, Florida, MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is a modestly sized elementary campus that hosts 353 students (grades K through 5), overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.
Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 32% White, 14% multiracial, 12% Black, 7% Asian.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 29% of students are eligible 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 below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 77.6%, a residual of +10.8 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put median household earnings sit near $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is WEST TAMPA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting.
Over the past 7-year window. MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 370 (now 353). Asian enrollment moved from 17% to 7% across the same window.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the MACFARLANE PARK ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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