Madison Middle, 4444 W. Bay Vista Ave.: grades 6 to 8, 551 students in 2026-27, a C in Florida's 2026 grades.
Last checked Oct. 11, 2026. Sources: the school’s website, Hillsborough County Public Schools’ 2026-27 school zones, 40th-day enrollment count, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades file and the federal NCES school directory.
Madison Middle is the Hillsborough County Public Schools middle school for grades 6 to 8 at 4444 W. Bay Vista Ave., inside Tampa city limits.
James Madison Junior High School opened in 1952 and became James Madison Middle School in 1992-93, according to the school’s history page.
Who to call
- Front office: 813-272-3050, 4444 W. Bay Vista Ave., Tampa, FL 33611
- School website: hillsboroughschools.org/o/madison
- Enrolling a new student: the district’s enrollment checklist; district office 813-272-4000
- Buses: the district’s Transportation Call Center, 813-982-5500, 5 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays
- Which school is my address zoned for? the district’s Find Your Neighborhood School lookup
| Address | 4444 W. Bay Vista Ave., Tampa, FL 33611 |
| Phone | 813-272-3050 |
| Grades | 6 to 8 |
| District | Hillsborough County Public Schools |
| State school number | 29-2651 |
Principal
Principal Valerie Newton, according to the school’s staff directory.
Enrollment and teachers
- District count: 551 students on the district’s 40th-day enrollment count for 2026-27, as of Oct. 5, 2026. The same sheet gives the campus a capacity of 972 students, so it is 57% full by the district’s measure.
- Federal count: 658 students in the 2024-25 school year, with 30 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 22 students per teacher.
State report card
Florida grades every public school A to F on the share of possible points it earns on the measures in the state’s 2026 school grades file: test scores, learning gains and, for middle and high schools, acceleration and graduation. The file sets an A for middle schools at 64% or more.
| School year | Grade |
|---|---|
| 2025-26 | C (53% of possible points) |
| 2024-25 | B |
| 2023-24 | C |
From the same file, the share of students scoring on grade level on the state tests in 2025-26:
- English language arts: 50%
- Math: 48%
- Science: 48%
- Social studies: 67%
It lists 98.1% of the school’s students as economically disadvantaged.
The full report card is on the state’s Florida school report cards site. It is an interactive dashboard; the figures above come from the downloadable file.
Attendance zone and feeder schools
Check any address with the district’s Find Your Neighborhood School lookup, or see the district’s 2026-27 middle school zone map. Zones do not follow city limits.
Of Tampa’s 212,263 address points in the City of Tampa’s address layer, 36,353 (17.1%) fall inside Madison Middle’s 2026-27 zone. An address point can be a house, an apartment or a business.
Comparing the district’s 2026-27 zone maps with 2020 Census population (shares are of the zone’s residents):
- Elementary zones inside this zone: Anderson Elementary (27%), Ballast Point Elementary (14%), Chiaramonte Elementary (14%), Tampa Bay Boulevard Elementary (13%), West Tampa Elementary (12%), Lanier Elementary (11%) and West Shore Elementary (10%).
- High school: it splits between Robinson High (75%) and Jefferson High (25%).
Approved changes for 2027-28: On April 7, 2026, the School Board gave final approval to closing Madison’s campus at 4444 W. Bay Vista Ave. starting in the 2027-28 school year. Students in the new Madison zone move to the former Monroe Middle School campus at 4716 W. Montgomery Ave., and sixth- to eighth-graders in the old zone east of Dale Mabry Highway and north of State Road 60 are reassigned to Stewart Middle Magnet, according to the district’s adopted boundary changes and its Madison relocation map.
Programs
Madison’s site lists a STEM aerospace program.
Calendar and bell times
Classes run 9:35 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., according to the school’s About page. Students are released early every Monday, according to the district’s calendar.
From the district’s 2026-27 student calendar:
- Monday, Oct. 12: no school for students
- Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, no school
- Nov. 23-27: fall break (Thanksgiving week)
- Dec. 21 to Jan. 1, 2027: winter break; Monday, Jan. 4 is also off, and students return Tuesday, Jan. 5
- Monday, Jan. 18, 2027: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no school
- Friday, Feb. 12, 2027: Florida State Fair day, no school
- Monday, Feb. 15, 2027: Presidents Day, no school
- March 22-26, 2027: spring break; Monday, March 29 is also off, and students return Tuesday, March 30
- Friday, May 28, 2027: last day of school, a 2.5-hour early release
More on Tampa schools
- The school’s page on the district website
- Every public school in Tampa
- Our Tampa schools guide for enrolling, the School Board and the full calendar
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Madison Middle serve?
Grades 6 to 8. It is a Hillsborough County Public Schools middle school at 4444 W. Bay Vista Ave. in Tampa.
What is Madison Middle’s school grade?
Madison Middle earned a C in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 53% of possible points. It earned a B in 2025.
Which high school does Madison Middle feed into?
Its zone splits between Robinson High (75%) and Jefferson High (25%) by 2020 Census residents, according to the district’s 2026-27 zone maps.
What time does Madison Middle start?
Classes run 9:35 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., according to the school’s website. Students are released early every Monday, according to the district’s calendar.
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