TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in PLANT CITY, Florida, TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL instructs 1,000 students from grades 6 through 8, run under HILLSBOROUGH. That puts it 26% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools in total, collectively educating 221,318 students. TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 25% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 67% 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 noticeably above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

With demographic context factored in, TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 34.8%, a residual of -13.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL has increased 4%, going from 961 students in 2018 to 1,000 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 61% to 67%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 today.

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