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Which teacher or staff member at BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
1,835
High
DISTRICT 1,261 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000918
BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL
1101 VICTORIA ST, BRANDON, FL 33510 · (813) 744-8120 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,835 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
24.0:1
76 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.7:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
981 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 475 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 496 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 440 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 424 | 23% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
36.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
36.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +18.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.0% | 36.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.5% | 18.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
36.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL
BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (36.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,835 | 53.5% | 36.0% |
| DELTONA HIGH SCHOOL DELTONA | 1,716 | 51.2% | 58.9% |
| PINE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL DELTONA | 1,648 | 51.2% | 50.3% |
| FORT PIERCE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FORT PIERCE | 3,178 | 53.2% | 46.6% |
| SPOTO HIGH SCHOOL RIVERVIEW | 1,933 | 52.0% | 49.1% |
| CLEARWATER HIGH SCHOOL CLEARWATER | 1,543 | 49.2% | 45.6% |
Matched among Florida high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #522 of 555 | #33 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #334 of 549 ▲ 158 | #20 of 34 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #524 of 559 ▼ 18 | #33 of 34 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,835 | #204 of 830 | #20 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.0:1 | #398 of 575 | #7 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.3% | #102 of 594 | #16 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.5% | #177 of 630 | #6 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.7% | #195 of 289 | #13 of 18 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,835
+222 (+14%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 1,871
Student : Teacher
24.0:1
was 17.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,835 | 76.4 | 24.0:1 | 53% (981) |
| 2023-24 | 1,588 | 74 | 21.5:1 | 58% (921) |
| 2022-23 | 1,560 | 77 | 20.3:1 | 57% (892) |
| 2020-21 | 1,613 | 91 | 17.7:1 | 75% (1,211) |
| 2017-18 | 1,945 | 111 | 17.5:1 | 68% (1,318) |
| 2015-16 | 1,969 | 114 | 17.3:1 | 61% (1,203) |
| 2010-11 | 2,049 | 119 | 17.2:1 | 48% (981) |
| 2000-01 | 1,765 | 122 | 14.5:1 | 22% (388) |
| 1990-91 | 1,871 | 126 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL.
About BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL
BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL is a high school in BRANDON, Florida, reachable at (813) 744-8120. The school teaches grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,835 students. It has 77% more students than the average for high schools in Florida (about 1,035).
HILLSBOROUGH, which runs BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL, has 300 schools and 221,318 students.
About 46% of students at BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL are Hispanic, the largest single group. The school is also 25% Black, 24% White, and 4% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 30%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 67%.
Its ratio of 24.0:1 is based on 76.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 23.5:1 average for high schools in Florida. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 53%. For comparison, public schools in Hillsborough County average 43%.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL is -18.3 points, in the bottom 10% of Florida. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 36.0%, and the predicted rate is 54.4%.
Looking at the county, Hillsborough County, median household income comes to about $79,540, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. The county's public schools total 320, with about 223,193 students.
MCLANE MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th of 8 nearby schools, at 36.0% versus a 40.0% average.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL had a net gain of 222 students, or 14%. The school's ratio increased from 17.7:1 to 24.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HILLSBOROUGH
- FLORIDA CONNECTIONS ACADEMYCombined · 5,748 students
- JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,602 students
- NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,157 students
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in BRANDON
- BURNS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,108 students
- MANN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 977 students
- MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 687 students
- BROOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 686 students
- MCLANE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 652 students
- YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 548 students
Other Brandon High schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Brandon High. BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL is the largest of the 3.
- Brandon High SchoolBrandon, MS · 1,609 students
- Brandon High SchoolORTONVILLE, MI · 648 students
Nearby schools
- MCLANE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 652
- LIMONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 543
- MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 977
- YATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 548
- SCHMIDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 510
- MINTZ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 687
Frequently asked questions
About BRANDON HIGH SCHOOLHow large is BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL?
BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,835 students in grades 09-12.
Is BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 24.0:1 students per teacher at BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL?
BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 24% White, 46% Hispanic, 25% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL in?
BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL is part of HILLSBOROUGH.
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