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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
587
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000987
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5202 N MENDENHALL DR, TAMPA, FL 33603 · (813) 872-5221 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL587 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of Florida public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
408 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
27%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
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→MEMORIAL MIDDLE 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
38.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
50.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.4% | 50.6% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 43.3% |
% 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
41.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (41.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 587 | 69.5% | 41.1% |
| ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 579 | 69.4% | 50.7% |
| CHICKASAW ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 551 | 68.1% | 47.3% |
| DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 526 | 71.5% | 37.9% |
| CHARLES DAVID WYCHE JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI GARDENS | 568 | 68.1% | 43.2% |
| PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 508 | 67.3% | 49.8% |
Matched among Florida elementary 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 MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.1% | #1,758 of 2,136 | #111 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.6% | #1,528 of 2,149 ▲ 174 | #95 of 176 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.4% | #1,829 of 2,149 ▼ 22 | #125 of 176 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 587 | #1,073 of 2,267 | #88 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #821 of 2,077 | #66 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.3% | #1,888 of 2,108 | #163 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.5% | #477 of 2,188 | #54 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.5% | #1,146 of 1,374 | #104 of 124 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
587
+102 (+21%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 631
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 587 | 38.4 | 15.3:1 | 70% (408) |
| 2023-24 | 542 | 30 | 18.1:1 | 71% (387) |
| 2022-23 | 530 | 34 | 15.6:1 | 72% (381) |
| 2020-21 | 485 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 91% (442) |
| 2017-18 | 621 | 49 | 12.7:1 | 90% (558) |
| 2015-16 | 690 | 57 | 12.1:1 | 89% (613) |
| 2010-11 | 659 | 52 | 12.7:1 | 87% (574) |
| 2000-01 | 918 | 63 | 14.6:1 | 82% (757) |
| 1990-91 | 631 | 34 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in TAMPA, Florida. The school enrolls 587 students in pre-K through 5.
HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools with a combined 221,318 students. MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
Roughly 85% of students at MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are Hispanic. Other groups include 9% White and 5% Black. By comparison, Hillsborough County residents are about 30% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 27%.
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a ratio of 15.3 students per teacher, from 38.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida is 2.2 students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 70% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 43% average for public schools in Hillsborough County, the school's rate is higher.
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 18% of Florida public elementary schools.
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 41.1%, compared with a predicted 46.3%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Hillsborough County, the median household earns about $79,540 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Hillsborough County has 320 public schools with about 223,193 students, including MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
TRINITY SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 7.
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 587, compared with 485 in 2020-21.
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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 Mendenhall Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mendenhall Elementary. MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Mendenhall Elementary SchoolMendenhall, MS · 598 students
- Mendenhall Elementary SchoolPLANO, TX · 563 students
Nearby schools
- TRINITY SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN0.5 mi · 910
- OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 832
- BROWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 138
- WALTON ACADEMY1.3 mi · 157
- MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 973
- HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 1,679
Frequently asked questions
About MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 587 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.3:1 students per teacher at MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 9% White, 85% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY 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.