WESTSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WESTSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a compact primary school in TAMPA, Florida, run under HILLSBOROUGH. Current enrollment sits at 259 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 57% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), WESTSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, WESTSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 33% Black, 20% White, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Hillsborough County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting WESTSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WESTSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.3%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WESTSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

The closest other public school is LANIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WESTSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WESTSHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 55.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 35%: 398 students in 2018 compared to 259 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 26% to 20%. Class-load math has grew: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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