SCHMIDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SCHMIDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an intimate elementary campus in BRANDON, Florida, operated by HILLSBOROUGH, serves 510 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

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

On demographics, SCHMIDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% Black, 11% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHMIDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.7%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household earnings sit near $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. SCHMIDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

FALKENBURG ROAD JAIL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 22%: 650 students in 2018 compared to 510 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 22% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for SCHMIDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.