MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL

MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized middle schools in BRANDON, Florida, part of HILLSBOROUGH, with 977 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 23% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

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

In terms of who attends, MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 23% White, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 62% 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%.

With demographic context factored in, MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -13.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hillsborough County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 968 students in 2018 compared to 977 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 35% to 23%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 in 2025.

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