SLAM ACADEMY AT APOLLO BEACH

SLAM ACADEMY AT APOLLO BEACH, an expansive unified-grade school in APOLLO BEACH, Florida, run under HILLSBOROUGH, instructs 1,235 students, covering grades K through 12. That puts it 250% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 353 students.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), SLAM ACADEMY AT APOLLO BEACH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SLAM ACADEMY AT APOLLO BEACH lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 30% White, 18% 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 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 29.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting SLAM ACADEMY AT APOLLO BEACH higher than the state norm the norm. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, SLAM ACADEMY AT APOLLO BEACH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.5%; this one delivers 49.6%.

In the broader community, census data for Hillsborough County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. SLAM ACADEMY AT APOLLO BEACH is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

The closest other public school is THOMPSON ELEMENTARY, roughly 1.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SLAM ACADEMY AT APOLLO BEACH comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. SLAM ACADEMY AT APOLLO BEACH operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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