RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in LITHIA, Florida, RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a big 6-8 campus, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. It hosts 1,373 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 73% above the state mean of about 794.

Within HILLSBOROUGH, which oversees 300 schools and 221,318 students, RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Asian, 5% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.0%, the actual is 77.8%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate 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. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 71.8%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 1,441 students in 2018 compared to 1,373 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 74% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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