Potter Elementary, 3224 E. Cayuga St.: pre-K to grade 5, 375 students in 2026-27, a C in Florida's 2026 grades.

Last checked Oct. 11, 2026. Sources: the school’s website, Hillsborough County Public Schools’ 2026-27 school zones, 40th-day enrollment count, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades file and the federal NCES school directory.

Potter Elementary is the Hillsborough County Public Schools elementary school for pre-K to grade 5 at 3224 E. Cayuga St., inside Tampa city limits.

Potter opened in September 1960 and is named for Marcellus D. Potter, who started a Black newspaper in Tampa, according to the school’s history page.

Who to call
Address 3224 E. Cayuga St., Tampa, FL 33610
Phone 813-276-5564
Grades Pre-K to grade 5
District Hillsborough County Public Schools
State school number 29-3521

Principal

Principal Jennifer Dames, according to the school’s staff directory.

Enrollment and teachers

  • District count: 375 students, including 51 in pre-K, on the district’s 40th-day enrollment count for 2026-27, as of Oct. 5, 2026. The same sheet gives the campus a capacity of 744 students, so it is 50% full by the district’s measure.
  • Federal count: 467 students in the 2024-25 school year, with 28 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 17 students per teacher.

State report card

Florida grades every public school A to F on the share of possible points it earns on the measures in the state’s 2026 school grades file: test scores, learning gains and, for middle and high schools, acceleration and graduation. The file sets an A for elementary schools at 62% of points or more.

School year Grade
2025-26 C (47% of possible points)
2024-25 D
2023-24 C

From the same file, the share of students scoring on grade level on the state tests in 2025-26:

  • Third-grade English language arts: 29%
  • English language arts: 30%
  • Math: 31%
  • Science: 28%

It lists 100% of the school’s students as economically disadvantaged.

The full report card is on the state’s Florida school report cards site. It is an interactive dashboard; the figures above come from the downloadable file.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Check any address with the district’s Find Your Neighborhood School lookup, or see the district’s 2026-27 elementary school zone map. Zones do not follow city limits.

Of Tampa’s 212,263 address points in the City of Tampa’s address layer, 4,176 (2.0%) fall inside Potter Elementary’s 2026-27 zone. An address point can be a house, an apartment or a business.

Comparing the district’s 2026-27 zone maps with 2020 Census population (shares are of the zone’s residents):

Calendar and bell times

Classes run 7:40 a.m. to 1:55 p.m., according to the school’s About page. Students are released early every Monday, according to the district’s calendar.

From the district’s 2026-27 student calendar:

  • Monday, Oct. 12: no school for students
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, no school
  • Nov. 23-27: fall break (Thanksgiving week)
  • Dec. 21 to Jan. 1, 2027: winter break; Monday, Jan. 4 is also off, and students return Tuesday, Jan. 5
  • Monday, Jan. 18, 2027: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no school
  • Friday, Feb. 12, 2027: Florida State Fair day, no school
  • Monday, Feb. 15, 2027: Presidents Day, no school
  • March 22-26, 2027: spring break; Monday, March 29 is also off, and students return Tuesday, March 30
  • Friday, May 28, 2027: last day of school, a 2.5-hour early release

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Potter Elementary serve?

Pre-K to grade 5. It is a Hillsborough County Public Schools elementary school at 3224 E. Cayuga St. in Tampa.

What is Potter Elementary’s school grade?

Potter Elementary earned a C in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 47% of possible points. It earned a D in 2025.

Which high school does Potter Elementary feed into?

Its whole attendance zone is zoned for Middleton High, according to the district’s 2026-27 zone maps.

What time does Potter Elementary start?

Classes run 7:40 a.m. to 1:55 p.m., according to the school’s website. Students are released early every Monday, according to the district’s calendar.