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Enrollment
928
Middle
DISTRICT 834 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000925
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
1001 W BEARSS AVE, TAMPA, FL 33613 · (813) 975-7600 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL928 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
582 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 315 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 256 | 28% |
| Grade 8 | 357 | 38% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL→GAITHER HIGH SCHOOL
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
31.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.5pp since 2023
Math
39.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.9% | 39.7% |
| 2023-24 | 25.5% | 33.1% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (34.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 928 | 62.7% | 34.9% |
| LEMUEL TEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL LEHIGH ACRES | 1,008 | 61.3% | 33.4% |
| LAKE WORTH COMMUNITY MIDDLE LAKE WORTH | 1,136 | 62.3% | 32.5% |
| HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL LEHIGH ACRES | 905 | 58.7% | 45.0% |
| JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE ORLANDO | 872 | 63.5% | 36.2% |
| CUTLER BAY MIDDLE CUTLER BAY | 935 | 59.7% | 48.1% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.9% | #512 of 560 | #31 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #486 of 560 ▲ 13 | #31 of 43 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #517 of 560 ▲ 15 | #33 of 43 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 928 | #194 of 584 | #17 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.4:1 | #487 of 547 | #31 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.4% | #315 of 553 | #33 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.7% | #134 of 565 | #14 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +25.9% | #26 of 137 | #3 of 15 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
928
+162 (+21%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 1,072
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 928 | 41.4 | 22.4:1 | 63% (582) |
| 2023-24 | 629 | 38 | 16.6:1 | 69% (437) |
| 2022-23 | 759 | 36 | 21.1:1 | 73% (552) |
| 2020-21 | 766 | 45 | 17.0:1 | 86% (658) |
| 2017-18 | 737 | 53 | 13.9:1 | 80% (588) |
| 2015-16 | 683 | 54 | 12.7:1 | 78% (535) |
| 2010-11 | 765 | 50 | 15.3:1 | 73% (560) |
| 2000-01 | 1,219 | 72 | 16.9:1 | 42% (511) |
| 1990-91 | 1,072 | 50 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-grades school located in TAMPA, Florida, in Hillsborough County. It offers grades 6 through 8 and has 928 students enrolled.
In HILLSBOROUGH, 300 schools enroll a combined 221,318 students.
At BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, 62% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 24% Black, 9% White, and 4% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Hillsborough County is roughly 30% Hispanic. The diversity index for BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 55%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL has 41.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.4:1. The gap from the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida is 2.8 students per teacher. At BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, 63% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 20 points above the 43% average for public schools in Hillsborough County.
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 14.8 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in Florida.
Census data for Hillsborough County show median household income comes to about $79,540, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. There are 320 public schools in the county, enrolling about 223,193, BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
LEARNING GATE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is about 1.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL places 6th out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 21%, from 766 to 928. Students per teacher increased from 17.0 in 2020-21 to 22.4 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HILLSBOROUGH
- FLORIDA CONNECTIONS ACADEMYCombined · 5,748 students
- JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,602 students
- NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,157 students
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in TAMPA
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- SICKLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,398 students
- PLANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,391 students
- TAMPA BAY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,181 students
- WHARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,130 students
- GAITHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,040 students
Other Buchanan Middle schools
One other US public school is named Buchanan Middle. BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Buchanan Middle SchoolBUCHANAN, MI · 358 students
Nearby schools
- LEARNING GATE COMMUNITY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 761
- MORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 731
- DOROTHY THOMAS CENTER2.0 mi · 35
- HOSPITAL/HOMEBOUND/HOMEBASED PROGRAMS2.2 mi · 168
- GAITHER HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 2,040
- MILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 585
Frequently asked questions
About BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 928 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 22.4:1 students per teacher at BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 9% White, 62% Hispanic, 24% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by HILLSBOROUGH in Hillsborough County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.