RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 101 E COLLEGE AVE, in RUSKIN, Florida, RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized primary school that enrolls 838 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of HILLSBOROUGH. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 39% above that benchmark.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 19% Black, 13% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 71% of students at RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify 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, RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.4%; actual is 31.2%, a gap of -14.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household income runs about $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

THOMPSON ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, RUSKIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 835 students in 2018 compared to 838 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 11% to 19%. Class-load math has grew: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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