YOUNG MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL

YOUNG MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL operates as a very small middle school in TAMPA, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH. Current enrollment sits at 307 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 61% smaller than the state mean of about 794.

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

Looking at the student body, YOUNG MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black, at 70% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, YOUNG MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, YOUNG MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 42.9%, a residual of -0.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which YOUNG MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL is one.

LOCKHART ELEMENTARY MAGNET 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. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), YOUNG MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.5%.

YOUNG MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 49%: 606 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.