OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a moderately sized elementary campus in TAMPA, Florida, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH, serves 832 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 38% larger than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 19% White, 7% Black, 2% 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, The school lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 39.4%, a residual of -6.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,540, 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), OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 5%, going from 878 students in 2018 to 832 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share expanded from 14% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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