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CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% 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.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL
CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL is one of the medium-sized 9-12 campuss in TAMPA, Florida, run under HILLSBOROUGH, with 1,183 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL is one of 300 schools operated by HILLSBOROUGH, a district that hosts 221,318 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL lists that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% Black, 11% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 62% of students at CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hillsborough County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.2%; this one comes in at 25.1%, -25.1 points off the demographic line.
In the broader community, census data for Hillsborough County shows median household income runs about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).
Nearest neighbor: ADAMS MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHAMBERLAIN HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 1,645 students in 2018 compared to 1,183 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 46% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.
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