PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of well-populated scale in TAMPA, Florida, run under HILLSBOROUGH, instructing 980 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 62% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Asian (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 20% White, 13% Hispanic, 12% Black, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.2%, the actual is 78.4%, a residual of +8.2 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household income runs about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BENITO MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 971 students in 2018 compared to 980 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 29% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.