FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL

As a substantial secondary school in TAMPA, Florida, FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL serves 1,869 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. Enrollment runs roughly 81% above the state mean of about 1,035.

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

On the student-mix side, FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 26% Black, 20% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 48% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 57.3%; FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL posts 40.2%, -17.1 points below that line.

In the area at large, Hillsborough County reports that 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%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.1%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,979 (now 1,869). White enrollment moved from 32% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 in 2025.

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