BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL

Set in BRANDON, Florida, BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL is a roomy four-year high school, run under HILLSBOROUGH. It caters to 1,835 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 77% above the state mean of about 1,035.

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

On the student-mix side, BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Black, 24% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hillsborough County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 54.4%; BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL posts 36.0%, -18.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

MCLANE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BRANDON HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 1,945 students in 2018 compared to 1,835 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 24% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.