Middle · Florida
Shields Middle School
Free meals for allShields Middle School, a public middle school in Ruskin, Florida: grades 6–8, 1,593 students, 26.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Hillsborough.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,593
- Teachers (FTE)
- 60.0
- Students per teacher
- 26.5
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 97% of middle schools in Florida
Median 19.2 · 571 schools compared
More students per teacher than 99% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 99% of middle schools in Florida
Median 805 · 581 schools compared
Larger than 99% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Hillsborough
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Hillsborough.
Location
- Address
- 15732 Beth Shields Way, Ruskin, FL 33573
- Phone
- (813)672-5338
- City or town
- Sun City Center
- County
- Hillsborough County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Eisenhower Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 1,174 | 21.8 |
Rodgers Middle Magnet SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 900 | 21.0 |
| 6–8 | 1,345 | 25.8 | |
Progress Village Middle MagnetFree meals for all | 6–8 | 849 | 20.0 |
Giunta Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 964 | 21.6 |
| 6–8 | 1,373 | 21.1 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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