NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Lithia, FL

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

7 public K-12 schools in Lithia from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

9,103

Students

39.9/100

Avg Resource Index

18.1:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lithia has more public-school enrollment than 78% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lithia's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Lithia's 7 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 20-point gap between Bevis Elementary School and Pinecrest Elementary School shows the range hidden by Lithia's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment: Top 22%
School count: Top 65%
Resource Index average: 45th percentile
Teacher staffing: 25th percentile

Newsome High School accounts for 34.7% of all Lithia public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lithia-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Lithia school enrollment varies 5.1× across entities

Lithia school enrollment ranges from 614 students (lowest) to 3,157 students (highest), a spread of 2,543 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Lithia operates one school district — a single-district system

Lithia's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Lithia student-teacher ratio is 18.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Bevis Elementary School	50	826	Combined	Hillsborough
2.	Stowers Elementary School	49	867	Combined	Hillsborough
3.	Fishhawk Creek Elementary School	47	921	Combined	Hillsborough
4.	Randall Middle School	37	1,373	middle	Hillsborough
5.	Newsome High School	33	3,157	high	Hillsborough
6.	Barrington Middle School	33	1,345	middle	Hillsborough
7.	Pinecrest Elementary School	30	614	Combined	Hillsborough

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lithia

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Lithia school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bevis Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lithia schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lithia, FL? ▼

Lithia has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,103 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 18.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.