MULRENNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL

MULRENNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is an average-sized middle-grades school in VALRICO, Florida, part of HILLSBOROUGH. The school caters to 1,027 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 29% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools in total, collectively educating 221,318 students. MULRENNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, MULRENNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 33% Hispanic, 13% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MULRENNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.2%, the actual is 58.0%, a residual of -6.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 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), MULRENNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BUCKHORN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MULRENNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 1,263 students in 2018 compared to 1,027 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 today.

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