ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL is one of the heavily attended secondary schools in SEFFNER, Florida, part of HILLSBOROUGH, with 2,278 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL sits 120% bigger than that benchmark.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Black (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 35% Hispanic, 22% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 28.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 56% 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 above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.2%; this one delivers 44.4%.

In the surrounding community, Hillsborough County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is THE SPRING, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARMWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 2,252 students in 2018 compared to 2,278 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 29% to 22%. Class-load math has widened: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 28.7:1 in 2025.

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