ORANGE GROVE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL

Set in TAMPA, Florida, ORANGE GROVE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL is a low-enrollment junior high, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH. It serves 497 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so ORANGE GROVE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL sits 37% below that benchmark.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), ORANGE GROVE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ORANGE GROVE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 26% Hispanic, 17% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, ORANGE GROVE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting ORANGE GROVE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ORANGE GROVE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.0%; this one delivers 50.2%.

Around the school, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household income runs about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. ORANGE GROVE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ORANGE GROVE MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 41.6%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 5%: 521 students in 2018 compared to 497 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share rose from 42% to 52%. Class-load math has widened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 in 2025.

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