SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY

SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY, a high-enrollment elementary-level community in RIVERVIEW, Florida, part of HILLSBOROUGH, educates 1,230 students, covering grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 104% larger than the state mean of about 604.

SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that hosts 221,318 students overall.

Demographically, SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 28% Black, 21% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at school resources, SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 74.0%; actual is 50.6%, a gap of -23.4 points.

Across the wider county, Hillsborough County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

Nearest neighbor: SUMMERFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.5%.

SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY operates from a suburban location. As a public charter, SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTHSHORE CHARTER ACADEMY has rose 25%, going from 987 students in 2018 to 1,230 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 29% to 21%. Class-load math has widened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

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