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ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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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 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized primary schools in PLANT CITY, Florida, operated by HILLSBOROUGH, with 522 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 28% White, 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.1%; this one delivers 52.0%.
In the area at large, census data for Hillsborough County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).
TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Looking at the recent track record. ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 685 (now 522). White enrollment moved from 32% to 28% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.
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