EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, a tiny junior high in TAMPA, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH, hosts 38 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 794 students per school, that is 95% leaner than typical.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 55% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 42% Black, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.0%; this one delivers 42.0%.

In the surrounding community, Hillsborough County reports that median household income runs about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

SHAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location. EXCELSIOR PREP CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.