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Enrollment
761
Middle
DISTRICT 834 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000950
SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL
2011 E SLIGH AVE, TAMPA, FL 33610 · (813) 276-5596 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL761 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
21.7:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
585 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
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
35.0%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.8pp since 2023
Math
43.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
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
39.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
761
+160 (+27%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
21.7:1
was 12.3:1
% White
5%
was 7%
% Hispanic
25%
was 21%
% Black
67%
was 68%
% Asian
1%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL
SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-grades school of middle-of-the-pack scale in TAMPA, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH, educateing 761 students in grades 6 through 8.
Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 25% Hispanic, 5% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.6%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of -2.9 points.
In the broader community, Hillsborough County reports that 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%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.
SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 27%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 761 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 today.
On the community side, the feed for SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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
- FOSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 428
- PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS0.9 mi · 46
- CARVER EXCEPTIONAL CENTER1.0 mi · 46
- CLEVELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 195
- SEMINOLE HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 375
- MIDDLETON HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,637
Frequently asked questions
About SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 761 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.7:1.
What is the student diversity at SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 5% White, 25% Hispanic, 67% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SLIGH MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of HILLSBOROUGH.
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