Enrollment
234
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000971
TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET
305 E COLUMBUS DR, TAMPA, FL 33602 · (813) 276-5405 · Hillsborough County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL234 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 29% 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.
- C+Beats 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
13.8:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
171 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 31 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 24% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is 44% smaller than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
49%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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
40.1%
FL avg 56.7% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
54.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down 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 | 40.1% | 54.8% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 49.7% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
44.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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 TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET
TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET's state test result (44.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET this school | 234 | 73.1% | 44.2% |
| HYDE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 272 | 70.2% | 30.9% |
| LINCOLN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENSACOLA | 211 | 76.3% | 32.8% |
| BEN GAMLA CHARTER SCHOOL SOUTH BROWARD MIAMI | 295 | 73.2% | 61.1% |
| LILLIE C. EVANS K-8 CENTER MIAMI | 269 | 73.2% | 47.0% |
| RAMONA BOULEVARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 292 | 76.4% | 45.5% |
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 TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.2% | #1,634 of 2,136 | #98 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #1,336 of 2,149 ▲ 56 | #84 of 176 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #1,773 of 2,149 ▼ 284 | #118 of 176 ▼ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 234 | #2,072 of 2,267 | #168 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #272 of 2,077 | #15 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.3% | #1,397 of 2,108 | #136 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.1% | #342 of 2,188 | #35 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.2% | #301 of 1,374 | #26 of 124 |
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
234
-80 (-25%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 392
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 234 | 17 | 13.8:1 | 73% (171) |
| 2023-24 | 291 | 20 | 14.6:1 | 81% (236) |
| 2022-23 | 292 | 22 | 13.3:1 | 77% (224) |
| 2020-21 | 314 | 24 | 13.1:1 | 88% (276) |
| 2017-18 | 317 | 23 | 13.8:1 | 84% (267) |
| 2015-16 | 316 | 23 | 13.7:1 | 75% (238) |
| 2010-11 | 336 | 28 | 12.0:1 | 73% (246) |
| 2000-01 | 449 | 30 | 15.0:1 | 67% (301) |
| 1990-91 | 392 | 23 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET.
About TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET
Federal records list TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET as an elementary school in TAMPA, Florida. It reports enrollment of 234 students in kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 61% below the 604-student average for elementary schools in Florida.
HILLSBOROUGH is made up of 300 schools with 221,318 students in all.
Federal enrollment data show TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET is 68% Black. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 7% White, and 6% multiracial. The county population is about 16% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 49%.
For every teacher at TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET, there are about 13.8 students; the school has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 73%. On average, public schools in Hillsborough County report 43%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET outscored 29%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 44.5% for a school in Florida with TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET's free or reduced-price lunch share. TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET posts 44.2%.
The school is in Hillsborough County, where the median household earns about $79,540 a year, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET shares Hillsborough County with 319 other public schools.
The closest school to TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET is PATRICIA SULLIVAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES PARTNERSHIP SCHOO, located about 0.2 miles away. TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET's average proficiency of 44.2% compares with 41.5% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale data from NCES put TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large).
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 314 to 234, a 25% decline.
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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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- MEDICAL ACADEMY AT D.W. WATERS0.4 mi · 95
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Frequently asked questions
About TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNETWhat is the total enrollment at TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET?
TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET enrolls approximately 234 students in grades KG-05.
Is TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET an elementary, middle, or high school?
TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET have?
TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the student diversity at TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET?
Student demographics at TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET are roughly 7% White, 18% Hispanic, 68% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET in?
TAMPA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY MAGNET is part of HILLSBOROUGH.
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