MCDONALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in SEFFNER, Florida, MCDONALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls 526 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH.

MCDONALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that hosts 221,318 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MCDONALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 36% Hispanic, 14% Black, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 51% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MCDONALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,540, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 MCDONALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is BRANDON SUCCESS CENTER, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MCDONALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 39.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. MCDONALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 591 (now 526). White enrollment moved from 51% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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