SLAM ACADEMY TAMPA ELEMENTARY

Set in TAMPA, Florida, SLAM ACADEMY TAMPA ELEMENTARY is a small elementary campus, run under HILLSBOROUGH. It caters to 248 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 59% smaller than typical.

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

In terms of who attends, SLAM ACADEMY TAMPA ELEMENTARY reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%. Beyond that, the school shows 13% White, 9% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at school resources, SLAM ACADEMY TAMPA ELEMENTARY lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 31.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 56% 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 above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, SLAM ACADEMY TAMPA ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.9%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of -13.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put median household earnings sit near $79,540, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), SLAM ACADEMY TAMPA ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

SPORTS LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT ACADEMY (TAMPA) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SLAM ACADEMY TAMPA ELEMENTARY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SLAM ACADEMY TAMPA ELEMENTARY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. As a public charter, SLAM ACADEMY TAMPA ELEMENTARY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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