VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY

VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY is an elementary-level community of very small scale in TAMPA, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH, enrolling 108 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 82% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that works with 221,318 students overall.

Looking at the student body, VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY logs that nearly all students (81%) are Black. The remainder looks like 12% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 16% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.0:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.1%; this one comes in at 26.4%, -23.7 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

KIMBELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 32.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at VILLAGE OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY has fell 56%, going from 247 students in 2018 to 108 in 2024. Black enrollment moved from 89% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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