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If you had an hour of school board time for POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
467
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087001002
POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3224 E CAYUGA ST, TAMPA, FL 33610 · (813) 276-5564 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL467 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
401 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
18.1%
FL avg 56.7% . -7.8pp since 2023
Math
22.7%
FL avg 58.9% . -6.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
22.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 38% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
467
-110 (-19%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 10.1:1
% White
3%
was 2%
% Hispanic
18%
was 9%
% Black
75%
was 87%
% Asian
0%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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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Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HILLSBOROUGH
- FLORIDA CONNECTIONS ACADEMYCombined · 5,748 students
- JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,602 students
- NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,157 students
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in TAMPA
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- SICKLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,398 students
- PLANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,391 students
- TAMPA BAY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,181 students
- WHARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,130 students
- GAITHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,040 students
Nearby schools
- LOMAX MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 239
- MIDDLETON HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,637
- FERRELL MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL0.6 mi · 437
- CARVER EXCEPTIONAL CENTER0.7 mi · 46
- PEPIN ACADEMIES0.8 mi · 834
- JAMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 388
Frequently asked questions
About POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 467 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.4:1.
What is the student diversity at POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 3% White, 18% Hispanic, 75% Black, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
POTTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by HILLSBOROUGH in Hillsborough County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.