PLANT HIGH SCHOOL

Set in TAMPA, Florida, PLANT HIGH SCHOOL is an expansive four-year high school, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH. It caters to 2,391 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so PLANT HIGH SCHOOL sits 131% above that benchmark.

HILLSBOROUGH runs 300 schools in total, collectively educating 221,318 students. PLANT HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, PLANT HIGH SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 66%. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, PLANT HIGH SCHOOL shows 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 27.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting PLANT HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 14% of students at PLANT HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, PLANT HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.0%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) records that the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. PLANT HIGH SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 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), PLANT HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 69.7%.

PLANT HIGH SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PLANT HIGH SCHOOL has stayed largely flat, going from 2,399 students in 2018 to 2,391 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 27.8:1 in 2025.

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