EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL

EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL is a high-enrollment secondary school in GIBSONTON, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH. The school works with 1,809 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 75% larger than the state mean of about 1,035.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 28% White, 27% Black, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 44% of students at EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.3%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of -13.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Hillsborough County shows 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%. EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 320 public schools in Hillsborough County (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students).

Nearest neighbor: EISENHOWER EXCEPTIONAL CENTER, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 2,311 (now 1,809). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 32% to 28%. Class-load math has grew: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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