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Enrollment
687
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087002828
MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1510 HEATHER LAKES BLVD, BRANDON, FL 33511 · (813) 744-8353 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL687 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
404 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 | 32 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 121 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 121 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
70%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
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
47.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.4pp since 2023
Math
44.6%
FL avg 58.9% . -4.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.5% | 44.6% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 49.1% |
% 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
45.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 687 | 58.8% | 45.8% |
| CORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GIBSONTON | 696 | 57.6% | 38.5% |
| ORANGEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT MYERS | 679 | 58.3% | 38.4% |
| CROISSANT PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT LAUDERDALE | 682 | 58.8% | 55.5% |
| DREAM LAKE ELEMENTARY APOPKA | 674 | 55.6% | 53.2% |
| INNOVATION PREPARATORY ACADEMY OF SOUTH FT. MYERS FORT MYERS | 770 | 54.9% | 32.5% |
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 MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #1,536 of 2,136 | #92 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.6% | #1,766 of 2,149 ▼ 341 | #118 of 176 ▼ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #1,425 of 2,149 ▲ 17 | #90 of 176 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 687 | #753 of 2,267 | #64 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #1,386 of 2,077 | #113 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #236 of 2,108 | #40 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.8% | #956 of 2,188 | #81 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.7% | #426 of 1,374 | #40 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
687
-74 (-10%) vs 2020
-56% since 2000-01, when it was 1,552
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 16.9:1
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 | 687 | 40.8 | 16.8:1 | 59% (404) |
| 2023-24 | 767 | 47 | 16.3:1 | 63% (480) |
| 2022-23 | 786 | 42 | 18.7:1 | 65% (513) |
| 2020-21 | 761 | 45 | 16.9:1 | 76% (575) |
| 2017-18 | 877 | 61 | 14.4:1 | 71% (627) |
| 2015-16 | 861 | 63 | 13.7:1 | 68% (584) |
| 2010-11 | 872 | 65 | 13.4:1 | 58% (507) |
| 2000-01 | 1,552 | 76 | 20.4:1 | 34% (532) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school in BRANDON, Florida. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 687 students.
HILLSBOROUGH is the local district for MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It runs 300 schools with 221,318 students.
Enrollment at MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is mixed, with Hispanic students the largest group at 44%. It is also 27% Black, 18% White, 9% multiracial, and 2% Asian. For comparison, the population of Hillsborough County is roughly 30% Hispanic. MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 70%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school has about 16.8 students per teacher and 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Florida have a similar average ratio of 17.5:1. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 59%. That rate is above the 43% average among public schools in Hillsborough County.
MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 45.8% is 5.9 points below the 51.7% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census Bureau estimates for Hillsborough County show that median household income is about $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 320 public schools operate in Hillsborough County, serving about 223,193 students.
The school nearest to MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at a distance of about 1.4 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 687 was 10% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 761.
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 BRANDON
- BRANDON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,835 students
- BURNS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,108 students
- MANN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 977 students
- BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 686 students
- MCLANE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 652 students
- YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 548 students
Nearby schools
- KINGSWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 437
- WINTHROP CHARTER SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,827
- PIVOT CHARTER SCHOOL1.8 mi · 205
- SYMMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 410
- BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 1,835
- BURNS MIDDLE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 1,108
Frequently asked questions
About MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 687 students in grades PK-05.
Is MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 41 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1.
What is the student diversity at MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 18% White, 44% Hispanic, 27% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
MINTZ 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.