MILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of mid-tier scale in TAMPA, Florida, operated by HILLSBOROUGH, educateing 585 students in grades pre-K through 5.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; MILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, MILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 55%; the rest breaks down as 33% Black, 7% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -12.3 points.

Around the school, census data for Hillsborough County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), MILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HOSPITAL/HOMEBOUND/HOMEBASED PROGRAMS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 33%, going from 873 students in 2018 to 585 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 11% to 7% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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