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MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
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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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