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Best kept secret at SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY?
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Enrollment
1,230
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087008520
SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY
11667 BIG BEND RD, RIVERVIEW, FL 33579 · (813) 769-1209 · Hillsborough County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERREGULAR SCHOOL1,230 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.6:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
176 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 127 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 122 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 135 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 127 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 143 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 166 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 160 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 137 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (127) is 7% smaller than its 8th grade class (137).
Student demographics
70%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
52.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.9pp since 2023
Math
52.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.4% | 52.6% |
| 2023-24 | 49.5% | 47.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
50.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 74% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY
SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY's state test result (50.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY this school | 1,230 | 14.3% | 50.6% |
| CREEKSIDE CHARTER ACADEMY RIVERVIEW | 887 | 18.6% | 59.8% |
| FRANKLIN ACADEMY SUNRISE SUNRISE | 1,370 | 5.8% | 71.4% |
| LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY RUSKIN | 813 | 9.5% | 51.3% |
| CLAY CHARTER ACADEMY MIDDLEBURG | 693 | 14.1% | 57.8% |
| NAVIGATOR ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP VALRICO VALRICO | 906 | 9.3% | 56.8% |
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 SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #1,310 of 2,136 | #78 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.6% | #1,434 of 2,149 ▲ 74 | #89 of 176 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.4% | #1,195 of 2,149 ▼ 2 | #70 of 176 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,230 | #77 of 2,267 | #5 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.6:1 | #2,052 of 2,077 | #157 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.8% | #219 of 2,108 | #37 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.3% | #2,074 of 2,188 | #155 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +24.6% | #147 of 621 | #13 of 41 |
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
1,230
+155 (+14%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
23.6:1
was 20.3:1
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 | 1,230 | 52 | 23.6:1 | 14% (176) |
| 2023-24 | 1,171 | 63 | 18.6:1 | 19% (227) |
| 2022-23 | 1,228 | 65 | 18.9:1 | 52% (634) |
| 2020-21 | 1,075 | 53 | 20.3:1 | 26% (281) |
| 2017-18 | 987 | 63 | 15.7:1 | 31% (306) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY.
About SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY
SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY sits in RIVERVIEW, Florida, and is classified as an elementary school. The school reports 1,230 students in kindergarten through 8. The school's enrollment is 104% bigger than the 604 average for elementary schools in Florida.
HILLSBOROUGH is responsible for 300 schools, SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY included, with 221,318 students in all.
Enrollment at SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY is mixed, with Hispanic students the largest group at 42%. The rest of enrollment is 28% Black, 21% White, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Hillsborough County's population at about 30%. SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY has a diversity index of 70%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY counts 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 23.6 students for each one. The 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is lower than this school's figure. About 14% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Hillsborough County is 43%.
allk12 grades SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY a C-. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY is -23.4 points, in the bottom 10% of Florida. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 50.6%, and the predicted rate is 74.0%.
Hillsborough County has these Census figures: median household income is about $79,540, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The public schools of Hillsborough County number 320 and enroll about 223,193.
SUMMERFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 50.6% is above the 46.5% average for nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY is Suburb: Large. It is a charter school, open to the public and funded by taxpayers.
Federal counts put enrollment at 1,075 in 2020-21 and 1,230 in 2024-25, a 14% increase. Federal data show the ratio rising from 20.3:1 to 23.6:1.
The SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
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- COLLINS PK-8 SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,644
- WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY2.0 mi · 812
- WINTHROP COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY2.0 mi · 1,055
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Frequently asked questions
About SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMYHow many students attend SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY?
SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY enrolls approximately 1,230 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY serve?
SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY is approximately 23.6:1 (52 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY?
At SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 21% White, 42% Hispanic, 28% Black, 3% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY public or private?
SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.