VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY

VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY is a high-enrollment elementary school in RIVERVIEW, Florida, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. The school hosts 916 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 52% bigger than typical.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY is among them.

On the student-mix side, VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% White, 14% multiracial, 13% Black, 10% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY records 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.3%.

Around the school, 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%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY is one.

BELL CREEK ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 68.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site. VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. VALRICO LAKE ADVANTAGE ACADEMY's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 901 (now 916). White enrollment moved from 49% to 28% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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