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Enrollment
1,000
Middle
DISTRICT 834 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087001030
TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL
5005 S TURKEY CREEK RD, PLANT CITY, FL 33567 · (813) 757-9442 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,000 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 7% of Florida public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
23.8:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
667 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 330 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 320 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 350 | 35% |
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL→DURANT HIGH SCHOOL
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
32.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.2pp since 2023
Math
40.8%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.2% | 40.8% |
| 2023-24 | 27.9% | 38.5% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
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
34.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 →
Schools most like TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL
TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (34.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 1,000 | 66.7% | 34.8% |
| CYPRESS PALM MIDDLE SCHOOL NAPLES | 836 | 67.5% | 58.6% |
| W. D. SUGG MIDDLE SCHOOL BRADENTON | 1,017 | 66.3% | 30.2% |
| DR. DAVID L. ANDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL STUART | 911 | 62.5% | 45.6% |
| LABELLE MIDDLE SCHOOL LABELLE | 830 | 60.6% | 44.2% |
| DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF LAKE ALFRED LAKE ALFRED | 1,039 | 66.8% | 52.9% |
Matched among Florida middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #513 of 560 | #32 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #477 of 560 ▼ 23 | #29 of 43 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #516 of 560 ▼ 2 | #32 of 43 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,000 | #151 of 584 | #12 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.8:1 | #521 of 547 | #40 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.2% | #399 of 553 | #38 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.7% | #92 of 565 | #10 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.1% | #105 of 137 | #11 of 15 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,000
+60 (+6%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 1,219
Student : Teacher
23.8:1
was 15.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,000 | 42 | 23.8:1 | 67% (667) |
| 2023-24 | 1,026 | 45 | 22.8:1 | 72% (739) |
| 2022-23 | 978 | 52.5 | 18.6:1 | 74% (719) |
| 2020-21 | 940 | 60 | 15.7:1 | 86% (811) |
| 2017-18 | 961 | 72 | 13.3:1 | 84% (810) |
| 2015-16 | 965 | 69 | 14.0:1 | 77% (746) |
| 2010-11 | 1,028 | 69 | 14.9:1 | 72% (737) |
| 2000-01 | 1,215 | 73 | 16.6:1 | 46% (564) |
| 1990-91 | 1,219 | 73 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL
TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is a medium-sized middle-grades school in Florida, with an address in PLANT CITY. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 1,000 students enrolled. For comparison, middle schools in Florida average about 794 students.
HILLSBOROUGH is the local district for TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL. It runs 300 schools with 221,318 students.
Hispanic students account for 67% of enrollment at TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL. Other groups make up 25% White, 5% Black, and 3% multiracial. Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 48%.
Federal data list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers at TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 23.8:1. Among middle schools in Florida, the typical ratio is 19.6:1. The lunch program counts 67% of students at TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Hillsborough County report 43%.
allk12 grades TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with Florida public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (34.8%) and its predicted rate (47.7%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
Across Hillsborough County, median household income is about $79,540, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The public schools of Hillsborough County number 320 and enroll about 223,193.
Nearby, ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL places 8th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL went from 940 students to 1,000. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 15.7:1 to 23.8:1.
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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
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- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
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Other schools in PLANT CITY
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- SPRINGHEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 750 students
Nearby schools
- ROBINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 522
- WALDEN LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 809
- TRAPNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 421
- NELSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.2 mi · 630
- DURANT HIGH SCHOOL3.9 mi · 2,504
- WILLIS PETERS EXCEPTIONAL CENTER3.9 mi · 61
Frequently asked questions
About TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,000 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 23.8:1 (42 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 25% White, 67% Hispanic, 5% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
TURKEY CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.