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Which teacher or staff member at SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
437
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087001014
SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
109 CACTUS RD, SEFFNER, FL 33584 · (813) 744-8171 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL437 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
243 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 21 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 23% smaller than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
39.5%
FL avg 56.7% . -4.2pp since 2023
Math
34.2%
FL avg 58.9% . -9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.5% | 34.2% |
| 2023-24 | 43.6% | 43.2% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (39.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 437 | 55.6% | 39.3% |
| REEDY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KISSIMMEE | 431 | 59.4% | 46.1% |
| STIRLING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 524 | 52.9% | 44.3% |
| SHERIDAN HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HOLLYWOOD | 378 | 54.0% | 54.0% |
| ACADEMIR PREPARATORY OF CHAMPIONSGATE MIAMI | 366 | 55.2% | 42.0% |
| COLSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEFFNER | 511 | 60.1% | 42.6% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #1,846 of 2,136 | #121 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.2% | #2,051 of 2,149 ▼ 336 | #154 of 176 ▼ 38 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #1,793 of 2,149 ▼ 329 | #120 of 176 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 437 | #1,648 of 2,267 | #132 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.2:1 | #1,954 of 2,077 | #143 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.1% | #553 of 2,108 | #61 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.6% | #1,058 of 2,188 | #89 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.2% | #302 of 1,374 | #27 of 124 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
437
+11 (+3%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 960
Student : Teacher
20.2:1
was 12.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 437 | 21.6 | 20.2:1 | 56% (243) |
| 2023-24 | 360 | 24 | 15.0:1 | 66% (236) |
| 2022-23 | 378 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 66% (249) |
| 2020-21 | 426 | 33 | 12.9:1 | 76% (322) |
| 2017-18 | 592 | 48 | 12.3:1 | 71% (419) |
| 2015-16 | 702 | 56 | 12.5:1 | 66% (463) |
| 2010-11 | 654 | 49 | 13.3:1 | 54% (353) |
| 2000-01 | 786 | 53 | 14.8:1 | 41% (323) |
| 1990-91 | 960 | 53 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is classified as an elementary school. It is located in SEFFNER, Florida. It had 437 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Florida have about 604 students on average; enrollment here is 28% lower.
SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one school in HILLSBOROUGH, a system of 300 schools with 221,318 students.
More than half of the students at SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic (51%). Beyond that, enrollment is 24% White, 17% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. In Hillsborough County overall, about 30% of residents are Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 65%.
The school has 21.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 20.2 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has more students per teacher. The school reported 56% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Hillsborough County report 43%.
The model predicts 53.3% for a school in Florida with SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 39.3%.
In the surrounding county, Hillsborough County, the median household earns about $79,540 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Hillsborough County has 320 public schools with about 223,193 students, including SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About 1.1 miles separate SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 37.7% on proficiency, and SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is above that at 39.3%.
In the federal locale system, SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 11 students, from 426 to 437. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (20.2:1) than in 2020-21 (12.9:1).
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Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HILLSBOROUGH
- FLORIDA CONNECTIONS ACADEMYCombined · 5,748 students
- JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,602 students
- NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,157 students
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in SEFFNER
- ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,278 students
- MANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 740 students
- JENNINGS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 686 students
- BURNETT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 636 students
- MCDONALD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 526 students
- COLSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 511 students
Nearby schools
- MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 977
- COLSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 511
- LIMONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 543
- YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 548
- MCLANE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 652
- MANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 740
Frequently asked questions
About SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 437 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 20.2:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 24% White, 51% Hispanic, 17% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SEFFNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by HILLSBOROUGH in Hillsborough County.
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