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If you could change one rule at COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
860
Middle
DISTRICT 834 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000936
COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
1724 S MANHATTAN AVE, TAMPA, FL 33629 · (813) 872-5335 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL860 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of Florida public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
112 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 | 233 | 27% |
| Grade 7 | 300 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 327 | 38% |
Student demographics
52%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
COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL→PLANT 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
81.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
90.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.4% | 90.3% |
| 2023-24 | 79.7% | 90.2% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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 COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (80.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 860 | 13.0% | 80.8% |
| ALICE B. LANDRUM MIDDLE SCHOOL PONTE VEDRA BEACH | 918 | 7.7% | 85.8% |
| RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL LITHIA | 1,373 | 14.3% | 77.8% |
| WEST BOYNTON MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYNTON BEACH | 896 | 18.2% | 79.0% |
| WILSON MIDDLE SCHOOL TAMPA | 598 | 16.1% | 77.0% |
| HAMLIN MIDDLE WINTER GARDEN | 953 | 8.7% | 72.2% |
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 COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.8% | #28 of 560 | #4 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 90.3% | #23 of 560 ▼ 7 | #3 of 43 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.4% | #26 of 560 ▼ 1 | #4 of 43 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 860 | #247 of 584 | #20 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.9:1 | #326 of 547 | #9 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.7% | #364 of 553 | #35 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.0% | #548 of 565 | #42 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.4% | #205 of 379 | #14 of 24 |
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
860
-161 (-16%) vs 2020
+42% since 1990-91, when it was 607
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
was 18.2:1
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 | 860 | 43.3 | 19.9:1 | 13% (112) |
| 2023-24 | 951 | 49 | 19.4:1 | 14% (133) |
| 2022-23 | 988 | 51.5 | 19.2:1 | 16% (162) |
| 2020-21 | 1,021 | 56 | 18.2:1 | 18% (183) |
| 2017-18 | 982 | 54 | 18.2:1 | 20% (192) |
| 2015-16 | 925 | 54 | 17.1:1 | 19% (179) |
| 2010-11 | 944 | 53 | 17.8:1 | 19% (184) |
| 2000-01 | 888 | 51 | 17.4:1 | 29% (254) |
| 1990-91 | 607 | 37 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public medium-sized middle-grades school in TAMPA, Florida. Its 860 students are spread across grades 6 through 8.
HILLSBOROUGH has 221,318 students in 300 schools, and COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
White students are the majority at COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 67% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 18% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. The school's White share is 16 points above the 51% share among Hillsborough County residents. COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL's diversity index is 52%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.9:1 at COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, with 43.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida fairly closely. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 13%. Across public schools in Hillsborough County, the average is 43%.
COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is graded A by allk12, scoring above 90% of Florida public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After adjusting for student poverty, COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 80.8%; the prediction is 74.7%.
Hillsborough County has these Census figures: the median household income is $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hillsborough County is home to 320 public schools and about 223,193 public school students.
MABRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. The five-mile area around COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 80.8% against a local average of 65.7%.
COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL has an NCES locale of City: Large.
Enrollment dropped 16% from its 2020-21 level of 1,021. The ratio was 18.2:1 in 2020-21 and 19.9:1 in 2024-25.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL covering things like sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Coleman Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Coleman Middle. COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the largest of the 5.
- Coleman Middle SchoolDuluth, GA · 711 students
- Coleman Middle SchoolWichita, KS · 631 students
- Coleman Middle SchoolGreenville, MS · 287 students
- Coleman MiddleColeman, WI · 142 students
Nearby schools
- MABRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 628
- GRADY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 548
- PLANT HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 2,391
- KENNETH E. ADUM PK-8 MAGNET SCHOOL1.4 mi · 1,007
- ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 614
- MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 658
Frequently asked questions
About COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 860 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.9:1.
What is the student diversity at COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 67% White, 18% Hispanic, 3% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.