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Enrollment
595
Middle
DISTRICT 834 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087007336
SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL
14303 CITRUS POINTE DR, TAMPA, FL 33625 · (813) 792-5125 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL595 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 54% of Florida public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
306 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 191 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 211 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 193 | 32% |
Student demographics
52%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
SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL→SICKLES HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
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
50.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.8pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +12.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.9% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 45.2% | 58.1% |
% 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
55.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL
SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (55.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 595 | 51.4% | 55.0% |
| LEGACY MIDDLE ORLANDO | 710 | 44.8% | 50.2% |
| ROBERTO CLEMENTE MIDDLE ORLANDO | 776 | 57.1% | 41.7% |
| DAVIDSEN MIDDLE SCHOOL TAMPA | 969 | 48.8% | 46.5% |
| SOUTHSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 805 | 47.0% | 33.4% |
| NARCOOSSEE MIDDLE SCHOOL SAINT CLOUD | 1,042 | 47.9% | 63.3% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #257 of 560 | #17 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #151 of 560 ▲ 84 | #12 of 43 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #317 of 560 ▲ 8 | #17 of 43 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 595 | #440 of 584 | #37 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #246 of 547 | #5 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.9% | #358 of 553 | #34 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.4% | #278 of 565 | #26 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.5% | #124 of 379 | #6 of 24 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
595
-136 (-19%) vs 2020
-46% since 2010-11, when it was 1,097
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 16.2:1
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 | 595 | 31.3 | 19.0:1 | 51% (306) |
| 2023-24 | 580 | 27.5 | 21.1:1 | 60% (349) |
| 2022-23 | 583 | 30.5 | 19.1:1 | 59% (342) |
| 2020-21 | 731 | 45 | 16.2:1 | 77% (561) |
| 2017-18 | 748 | 49 | 15.3:1 | 71% (529) |
| 2015-16 | 804 | 51 | 15.8:1 | 69% (551) |
| 2010-11 | 1,097 | 60 | 18.3:1 | 63% (689) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL
SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a low-enrollment middle school in TAMPA, Florida, (ZIP code 33625). The school teaches grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 595 students. It has 25% fewer students than the average for middle schools in Florida (about 794).
HILLSBOROUGH has 221,318 students in 300 schools, and SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is Hispanic: 67%. Other groups make up 17% White, 6% Black, 6% Asian, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 30% of Hillsborough County residents are Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 52%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is 19.0:1, based on 31.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among middle schools in Florida is similar, at 19.6:1. Lunch program data show 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 54% of Florida public middle schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 55.0%; the prediction is 55.4%.
The school's county is Hillsborough County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. There are 320 public schools in the county, enrolling about 223,193, SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is CITRUS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th of 9 nearby schools, at 55.0% versus a 52.8% average.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 731 (2020-21) to 595 (2024-25). In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 16.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 19.0:1.
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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 TAMPA
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- SICKLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,398 students
- PLANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,391 students
- TAMPA BAY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,181 students
- WHARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,130 students
- GAITHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,040 students
Nearby schools
- CITRUS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 514
- PLATO COLLEGIATE ACADEMY TAMPA0.2 mi · 393
- VICTORY CHARTER SCHOOL TAMPA 6-120.3 mi · 145
- VICTORY CHARTER SCHOOL TAMPA0.3 mi · 170
- SICKLES HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 2,398
- SPORTS LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT ACADEMY (TAMPA)0.6 mi · 580
Frequently asked questions
About SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 595 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 19.0:1 (31 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 17% White, 67% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SERGEANT PAUL R SMITH MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.