SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in LUTZ, Florida, SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 555 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under HILLSBOROUGH.

SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that works with 221,318 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% White, 8% Asian, 7% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 22% of students at SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.3%.

Across the wider county, 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 roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

SUNLAKE ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 74.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 654 students in 2018 compared to 555 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 48% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 today.

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