JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL

JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL is one of the expansive senior highs in RIVERVIEW, Florida, operated by HILLSBOROUGH, with 3,602 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 248% larger than typical.

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

In terms of who attends, JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% Black, 17% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 132 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 61.2%; JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL posts 46.1%, -15.1 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) records that median household income runs about $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

CREEKSIDE CHARTER ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

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