The top reported proficiency rate is 39% in English language arts. The lowest is 36% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Summerfield Crossings Elementary School
Summerfield Crossings Elementary serves prekindergarten through fifth grade in Riverview, a fast-growing unincorporated suburban community southeast of Tampa in Hillsborough County. The school is a regular public school within Hillsborough County Public Schools, sitting in a residential subdivision neighborhood typical of the master-planned landscape that defines this part of the county.
The school's enrollment is on the larger side for an elementary school, distributed fairly evenly across its grade levels from kindergarten through fifth grade with a small pre-K cohort as well. The student body is meaningfully diverse: Hispanic and Black students together make up the clear majority of enrollment, with white students representing roughly a fifth of the school, and smaller shares of Asian and multiracial students. Just over half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, meaning that while this is not a school where nearly all students face economic hardship, a substantial portion do. Data on English learners and students with IEPs were not reported in the materials available, so those dimensions of the student population are a gap worth asking the school about directly.
On Florida's state assessments, FAST ELA and FAST Math, proficiency rates at Summerfield Crossings run below the midpoint across the tested grades, which here are third, fourth, and fifth. ELA results are modest at third grade and fall somewhat in fourth and fifth. Math follows a similar pattern, with third grade results slightly above the fourth and fifth grade figures, though all three grades sit in the same general range. Fifth-grade science results on the Florida Statewide Science Assessment are in a comparable range. These are not strong numbers by Florida standards, and a parent who is weighing academic outcomes as a central factor will want to dig in further with the school on what supports exist for students who are not yet proficient, as well as what the school's trajectory looks like over time. Multi-year trend data were not available in the sources used here.
No information was available about specific programs, course access, or staffing ratios at this school, so it is not possible to characterize what enrichment, intervention, or specialty programming the school offers.
At the district level, there are two things Hillsborough County families are navigating. Voters approved a property tax millage in late 2024 that runs through mid-2029, adding a real annual cost for homeowners while directing funds toward teacher and staff pay increases. Publicly reported coverage describes this as a meaningful bump in compensation intended to address chronic teacher shortages. Separately, the district completed a significant boundary rezoning affecting dozens of schools and potentially tens of thousands of students for the 2024-25 school year. Families new to Riverview should confirm that their address maps to Summerfield Crossings under the current boundaries, since those assignments shifted for many households.
Riverview itself has been one of Florida's fastest-growing communities for more than a decade, with the county's own planning data showing population in the planning area nearly doubling since earlier baseline years. That growth shows up in the housing market: home values near this school are in the mid-to-upper range relative to the Florida state median, with prices down modestly year over year compared with a steeper statewide decline, and rents running higher than in many Florida markets. The monthly cost of homeownership here, at current mortgage rates, is not modest. For renters, rent-to-income ratios are also stretched. Families relocating to this part of Riverview are doing so in a market that, despite some recent softening, remains meaningfully more expensive than the state average.
The community around the school is car-dependent suburban in character, with daily needs requiring a drive. Winthrop Town Centre, the most walkable mixed-use node in Riverview, is a designed exception in an otherwise subdivision-and-highway-corridor built environment. The Riverview Public Library branch is a well-equipped county facility with maker spaces and meeting rooms, and the Alafia River anchors outdoor recreation nearby. These are real assets for families, though street-level walkability near the school itself is limited.
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