WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 702 W ENGLISH ST, in PLANT CITY, Florida, WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school that caters to 329 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. Enrollment runs roughly 46% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

Within HILLSBOROUGH, which oversees 300 schools and 221,318 students, WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 28% White, 9% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 71% 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, WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of -2.4 points.

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

The closest other public school is JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 362 students in 2018 compared to 329 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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