MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in TAMPA, Florida, MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school, run under HILLSBOROUGH. It works with 587 students across grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 9% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 70% of students at MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -5.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put median household earnings sit near $79,540, 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), MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is TRINITY SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MENDENHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 621 students in 2018 compared to 587 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 71% to 85% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.