HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL

As a sprawling high school in TAMPA, Florida, HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL educates 1,679 students from grades 9 through 12, run under HILLSBOROUGH. Enrollment runs roughly 62% above the state mean of about 1,035.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 28% Black, 13% White, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, On paper, HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL has 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.3:1. The state averages about 23.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.8%, the actual is 44.9%, a residual of -10.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) records that the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 37.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 1,983 (now 1,679). Hispanic enrollment moved from 42% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 in 2025.

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