POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact K-5 school in TAMPA, Florida, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. The school educates 467 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 75%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the income-and-resources front, POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.1%; actual is 22.1%, a gap of -16.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put median household income runs about $79,540, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LOMAX MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.1%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 577 (now 467). Black enrollment moved from 87% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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