The top reported proficiency rate is 66% in English language arts. The lowest is 64% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Riverhills Elementary Magnet School
Riverhills Elementary Magnet School sits on South Riverhills Drive in Temple Terrace, a Tampa suburb built around tree-lined residential streets, a historic golf course, and green space along the Hillsborough River. The school is a prekindergarten through fifth grade campus in Hillsborough County Public Schools, serving a mid-sized enrollment for its grade band. It carries the magnet designation in its name, though the data available here does not specify the magnet's theme or admission process, so families should contact the school directly to understand how access and any specialized programming work.
The student body is racially and ethnically mixed. Black students make up the largest share, followed by Hispanic and white students at comparable levels, with Asian and multiracial students making up smaller portions. About half of all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a meaningful share that situates the school as serving a broad economic range rather than a predominantly affluent population. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in this profile.
On Florida's FAST assessments, proficiency in reading across tested grades runs in the mid-to-upper sixties, and math results show a similar spread, with fifth graders performing somewhat stronger than third and fourth graders. Fifth grade science proficiency sits in the mid-sixties. These results are roughly in the middle range for Florida elementary schools, neither well below nor well above what the state broadly reports. The comparison fact-set for Hillsborough County indicates only one district-level entity in the comparison universe, which means a meaningful cross-district proficiency comparison is not available here. Trend data across years was also not available, so whether performance has been moving up or holding steady is a gap a parent may want to explore directly with the school or district.
Graduation rate does not apply to this school, since it ends at fifth grade.
Temple Terrace itself has the feel of an older, established suburb: Mediterranean Revival homes from the 1920s mixed with midcentury and newer housing, parks along the river, and a walkable but transit-limited built environment. The area is anchored economically by the University of South Florida, AdventHealth, and Moffitt Cancer Center, which shapes the professional character of many households nearby. The city has spent years trying to build a conventional downtown along 56th Street, and publicly reported sources indicate that redevelopment effort remains active, with new multifamily housing coming online near Bullard Parkway and additional parcels being marketed for retail and restaurant uses.
Housing near the school is priced modestly below both Florida's statewide median and the national median, and values have edged slightly downward over the past year. Rents have been essentially flat. That makes Temple Terrace more accessible than many parts of greater Tampa, though the price-to-income ratio nationally still puts homeownership in the stretch range for many buyers at current mortgage rates.
Two district-level developments are worth knowing. Hillsborough County voters approved a property tax referendum in late 2024 that runs through mid-2029, adding to annual tax bills for homeowners in exchange for teacher and support staff pay supplements aimed at reducing teacher shortages. The district also implemented a broad boundary rezoning that took effect for the 2024-25 school year, affecting a large number of schools and potentially shifting tens of thousands of students' assignments. Families new to the area should verify their current attendance zone, since those boundaries may have shifted recently and the magnet structure at Riverhills adds another layer to how enrollment is determined.
IEP and English learner rates were not reported in the available data, and no program-level detail beyond the magnet name was available, so the specific academic model or enrichment focus this school uses remains a gap to fill through direct outreach.
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