SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a modestly sized primary school in TAMPA, Florida, SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL hosts 396 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH. That puts it 34% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

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

Demographically, SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 74%; the rest is composed of 19% Hispanic, 4% White. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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, SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.9%; actual is 26.6%, a gap of -15.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) reports that 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. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ROBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 11%, going from 443 students in 2018 to 396 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 85% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

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