Enrollment
329
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087001037
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
702 W ENGLISH ST, PLANT CITY, FL 33563 · (813) 757-9307 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL329 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% 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.
- CBeats 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
17.1:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
234 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
55%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→TOMLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
40.0%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.6pp since 2023
Math
46.5%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.1pp 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 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 46.5% |
| 2023-24 | 40.6% | 46.5% |
% 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
43.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (43.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 329 | 71.1% | 43.1% |
| LOUISE S. MCINNIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DE LEON SPRINGS | 358 | 69.6% | 50.5% |
| MOORE HAVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MOORE HAVEN | 344 | 74.1% | 52.6% |
| FRIENDSHIP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELTONA | 429 | 73.7% | 45.1% |
| NOCATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NOCATEE | 475 | 70.3% | 44.4% |
| HILLTOP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAUCHULA | 298 | 76.8% | 43.7% |
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 WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.1% | #1,677 of 2,136 | #104 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.5% | #1,709 of 2,149 ▼ 151 | #112 of 176 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #1,778 of 2,149 ▼ 162 | #119 of 176 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 329 | #1,933 of 2,267 | #155 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.1:1 | #1,464 of 2,077 | #118 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.2% | #1,124 of 2,108 | #113 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.1% | #414 of 2,188 | #48 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.1% | #990 of 1,374 | #92 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
329
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 307
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 329 | 19.2 | 17.1:1 | 71% (234) |
| 2023-24 | 296 | 20.5 | 14.4:1 | 86% (254) |
| 2022-23 | 317 | 21.5 | 14.7:1 | 89% (281) |
| 2020-21 | 333 | 22 | 15.1:1 | 94% (314) |
| 2017-18 | 362 | 32 | 11.3:1 | 91% (330) |
| 2015-16 | 395 | 35 | 11.3:1 | 91% (361) |
| 2010-11 | 347 | 30 | 11.6:1 | 86% (299) |
| 2000-01 | 402 | 29 | 13.9:1 | 87% (349) |
| 1990-91 | 307 | 18 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school in PLANT CITY, Florida, administered by HILLSBOROUGH. The school enrolls 329 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Florida average about 604 students, which makes this school 46% below average.
The district, HILLSBOROUGH, operates 300 schools serving 221,318 students.
The share of Hispanic students at WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 60%, a majority. The school is also 28% White, 9% Black, and 2% multiracial. Census figures show Hillsborough County is about 30% Hispanic. A diversity index of 55% means there is a 55% chance two randomly chosen students at WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
Staffing at WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 19.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.1:1. The ratio is within a point of the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. On the income side, 71% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The 43% average for public schools in Hillsborough County is 28 points lower.
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 24% of Florida public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the prediction is 45.5% and the result is 43.1%.
The school's county is Hillsborough County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $79,540 a year, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shares Hillsborough County with 319 other public schools.
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.8 miles from JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is ahead of the 43.0% nearby average, ranking 4th of 7.
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
In 2020-21, WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 333; in 2024-25, 329. The school's ratio increased from 15.1:1 to 17.1:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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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Other Wilson Elementary schools
59 other US public schools in 24 states are named Wilson Elementary. WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 40th largest of the 60.
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- Wilson Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 756 students
- Wilson ElementaryFresno, CA · 669 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolMurfreesboro, TN · 666 students
- Wilson ElementaryFishersville, VA · 655 students
Nearby schools
- JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 451
- BRYAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 618
- TOMLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,340
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL1.4 mi · 510
- BURNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 357
- MARSHALL MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,066
Frequently asked questions
About WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 329 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.1:1 students per teacher at WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 28% White, 60% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by HILLSBOROUGH in Hillsborough County.
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