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What's one thing FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,869
High
DISTRICT 1,261 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087003858
FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL
17410 COMMERCE PARK BLVD, TAMPA, FL 33647 · (813) 558-1185 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,869 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
84 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.7:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
892 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
43.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.7pp since 2023
Math
25.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
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
40.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 57% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,869
-110 (-6%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
22.4:1
was 18.0:1
% White
20%
was 32%
% Hispanic
45%
was 34%
% Black
26%
was 26%
% Asian
4%
was 5%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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.
Inside the community feed, the feed for FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 TAMPA
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- SICKLES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,398 students
- PLANT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,391 students
- TAMPA BAY TECH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,181 students
- WHARTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,130 students
- GAITHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,040 students
Nearby schools
- LIBERTY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 779
- CHILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 787
- CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 858
- WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 2,130
- TAMPA PALMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 682
- TURNER-BARTELS K-8 SCHOOL3.1 mi · 1,317
Frequently asked questions
About FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL?
FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,869 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL serve?
FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL have?
FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL employs 84 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL?
At FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 20% White, 45% Hispanic, 26% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.