TERRACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL

TERRACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school of tight-knit scale in TAMPA, Florida, operated by HILLSBOROUGH, hosting 660 students in grades 6 through 8.

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

In terms of who attends, TERRACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Asian at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 23% White, 13% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 5% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 2% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, TERRACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 80.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 89.0%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. TERRACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

DR KIRAN C PATEL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TERRACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 48.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. TERRACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TERRACE COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 660 students in 2018 to 660 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share increased from 25% to 46%. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

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