STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL

STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized 6-8 campus in TAMPA, Florida, operated by HILLSBOROUGH. Current enrollment sits at 793 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that hosts 221,318 students overall.

Looking at the student body, STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL logs that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 38% Hispanic, 14% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.3%; this one delivers 47.0%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household income runs about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

Nearest neighbor: BLAKE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 1,041 students in 2018 compared to 793 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 33% to 43% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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