OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in TAMPA, Florida, OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. It hosts 314 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 48% leaner than that benchmark.

Within HILLSBOROUGH, which oversees 300 schools and 221,318 students, OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 6% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 32.0%, a residual of -9.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household income runs about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is IDEA HOPE, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 41.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 48%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 314 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 80% to 69% across the same window.

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