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.