BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 1001 W BEARSS AVE, in TAMPA, Florida, BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized intermediate school that caters to 928 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by HILLSBOROUGH.

HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools in total, collectively educating 221,318 students. BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%; the rest breaks down as 24% Black, 9% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.7%; BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 34.9%, -14.8 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

LEARNING GATE COMMUNITY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 26% since 2018, when it stood at 737 (now 928). White enrollment moved from 26% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.

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