WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a reasonably sized primary school in TAMPA, Florida, WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 876 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by HILLSBOROUGH. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 45% above that benchmark.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.4%; this one delivers 76.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,540, 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), WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: DAVIDSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 978 (now 876). White enrollment moved from 62% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

On the community side, members of the WESTCHASE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.