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Alumni: what's one memory from MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
973
Middle
DISTRICT 834 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087004352
MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
4702 N CENTRAL AVE, TAMPA, FL 33603 · (813) 872-5230 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL973 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
23.2:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
656 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 | 292 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 293 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 388 | 40% |
Student demographics
45%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
Feeds from
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
28.7%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.7pp since 2023
Math
35.8%
FL avg 58.9% . -8.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.7% | 35.8% |
| 2023-24 | 28.1% | 44.0% |
% 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
34.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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 MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (34.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 973 | 67.4% | 34.4% |
| JUDSON B WALKER MIDDLE ORLANDO | 872 | 63.5% | 36.2% |
| W. D. SUGG MIDDLE SCHOOL BRADENTON | 1,017 | 66.3% | 30.2% |
| L C SWAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL GREENACRES | 1,275 | 65.7% | 38.8% |
| BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL TAMPA | 928 | 62.7% | 34.9% |
| LAKE WORTH COMMUNITY MIDDLE LAKE WORTH | 1,136 | 62.3% | 32.5% |
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 MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #519 of 560 | #34 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.8% | #515 of 560 ▼ 124 | #37 of 43 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #538 of 560 ▼ 24 | #39 of 43 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 973 | #165 of 584 | #14 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.2:1 | #508 of 547 | #34 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.2% | #421 of 553 | #41 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.4% | #78 of 565 | #7 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +54.2% | #5 of 137 | #1 of 15 |
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
973
+326 (+50%) vs 2020
0% since 2000-01, when it was 975
Student : Teacher
23.2:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 973 | 42 | 23.2:1 | 67% (656) |
| 2023-24 | 659 | 34.5 | 19.1:1 | 71% (466) |
| 2022-23 | 600 | 33 | 18.2:1 | 72% (432) |
| 2020-21 | 647 | 43 | 15.1:1 | 93% (601) |
| 2017-18 | 631 | 48 | 13.2:1 | 90% (570) |
| 2015-16 | 645 | 50 | 12.9:1 | 93% (599) |
| 2010-11 | 785 | 45 | 17.4:1 | 89% (701) |
| 2000-01 | 975 | N/A | N/A | 85% (830) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
Among the schools in TAMPA, Florida, is MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, a medium-sized middle school. A total of 973 students attend the school, which covers grades 6 through 8. The average for middle schools in Florida is about 794 students, so this school is 23% bigger than average.
District-wide, HILLSBOROUGH has 300 schools and 221,318 students.
MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment is 71% Hispanic. Other groups include 19% Black, 6% White, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County residents are about 30% Hispanic. By the diversity index, MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in at 45%.
MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL's 42 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 23.2:1. For comparison, middle schools in Florida average 19.6:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 67%. The rate at public schools in Hillsborough County averages 43%, lower than here.
MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is 13.0 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (34.4% versus 47.4%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in Hillsborough County, where median household income is about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 320 public schools in Hillsborough County, with a combined enrollment of about 223,193.
The school nearest to MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is WALTON ACADEMY, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Within five miles of MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is 5th of 6 nearby schools with test data.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 647 to 973. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served. The ratio was 15.1:1 in 2020-21 and 23.2:1 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Memorial Middle schools
24 other US public schools in 13 states are named Memorial Middle. MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 25.
- MEMORIAL MIDDLEORLANDO, FL · 712 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 1,236 students
- Memorial Middle School - 04Sioux Falls, SD · 1,133 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolEDINBURG, TX · 1,045 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMentor, OH · 852 students
Nearby schools
- WALTON ACADEMY0.2 mi · 157
- HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,679
- BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 138
- SEMINOLE HEIGHTS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 276
- EDISON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 303
- SEMINOLE HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 375
Frequently asked questions
About MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 973 students in grades 06-08.
Is MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 23.2:1.
What is the student diversity at MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 6% White, 71% Hispanic, 19% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
MEMORIAL 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.