JENNINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 9325 GOVERNORS RUN DR, in SEFFNER, Florida, JENNINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school that works with 686 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), JENNINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, JENNINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 34% Black, 18% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JENNINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. The state averages about 19.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JENNINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 47.4%; this one comes in at 27.4%, -20.1 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Hillsborough County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. JENNINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

FOLSOM ELEMENTARY 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, JENNINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JENNINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL has decreased 15%, going from 810 students in 2018 to 686 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 36% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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