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MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in BRANDON, Florida, MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 687 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH.
Within HILLSBOROUGH, which oversees 300 schools and 221,318 students, MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 27% Black, 18% White, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 59% of students at MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.7%; this one delivers 45.8%.
In the area at large, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household earnings sit near $79,540, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 46.8%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Trend over the last 7 years. MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 22% since 2018, when it stood at 877 (now 687). The White share of enrollment shrank from 24% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.
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