PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an average-sized K-5 school in LITHIA, Florida, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. Current enrollment sits at 614 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 30% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 51% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 55.7%; PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 39.5%, -16.2 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate 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%. PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

DURANT HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 70.1%.

PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 7%: 576 students in 2018 compared to 614 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 65% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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