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RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL
Set in TAMPA, Florida, RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL is an average-sized primary school, part of HILLSBOROUGH. It instructs 782 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL sits 29% larger than that benchmark.
Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL shows that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 29% Black, 27% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 51% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 49 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 RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.8%; this one delivers 72.5%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put median household earnings sit near $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is PRE-K ESE COMMUNITY PEEPS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RAMPELLO K-8 MAGNET SCHOOL at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 53.1%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 766 students in 2018 compared to 782 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 35% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.
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