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Enrollment
1,154
High
DISTRICT 1,261 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000965
KING HIGH SCHOOL
6815 N 56TH ST, TAMPA, FL 33610 · (813) 744-8333 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,154 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
29.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.7:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
648 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 300 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 297 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 289 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 268 | 23% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). 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
36.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
29.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.9% | 29.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.9% | 24.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
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
36.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 53% 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 →
Schools most like KING HIGH SCHOOL
KING HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (36.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KING HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,154 | 56.2% | 36.6% |
| EASTSIDE HIGH SCHOOL GAINESVILLE | 1,291 | 52.5% | 46.9% |
| PENSACOLA HIGH SCHOOL PENSACOLA | 1,221 | 52.0% | 41.2% |
| TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 1,539 | 55.3% | 36.1% |
| HILLSBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL TAMPA | 1,679 | 50.6% | 44.9% |
| SEMINOLE HIGH SCHOOL SANFORD | 3,807 | 49.6% | 51.5% |
Matched among Florida high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where KING HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.6% | #517 of 555 | #32 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #427 of 549 ▼ 6 | #28 of 34 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #518 of 559 no change | #32 of 34 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,154 | #364 of 830 | #28 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 29.9:1 | #537 of 575 | #28 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.3% | #40 of 594 | #7 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.2% | #149 of 630 | #4 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.0% | #21 of 289 | #1 of 18 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,154
-503 (-30%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 1,715
Student : Teacher
29.9:1
was 18.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,154 | 38.6 | 29.9:1 | 56% (648) |
| 2023-24 | 1,252 | 57.5 | 21.8:1 | 61% (768) |
| 2022-23 | 1,422 | 66.5 | 21.4:1 | 62% (883) |
| 2020-21 | 1,657 | 90 | 18.4:1 | 69% (1,143) |
| 2017-18 | 1,748 | 105 | 16.6:1 | 63% (1,093) |
| 2015-16 | 1,859 | 102 | 18.2:1 | 60% (1,120) |
| 2010-11 | 1,736 | 104 | 16.7:1 | 51% (884) |
| 2000-01 | 2,117 | 136 | 15.6:1 | 29% (604) |
| 1990-91 | 1,715 | 104 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KING HIGH SCHOOL.
About KING HIGH SCHOOL
KING HIGH SCHOOL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a high school in TAMPA, Florida. It is open to students in grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,154 students.
KING HIGH SCHOOL is one school in a 300-school district, HILLSBOROUGH, which enrolls 221,318 students.
No group is above 50% at KING HIGH SCHOOL; the largest is Black, at 46%. Other reported shares: 22% Hispanic, 16% White, 11% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Hillsborough County's residents are about 16% Black, 30 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 70%.
Based on 38.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, KING HIGH SCHOOL has a ratio of 29.9:1. The gap from the 23.5:1 average for high schools in Florida is 6.4 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 56%. The average for public schools in Hillsborough County is 43%.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, KING HIGH SCHOOL is among the bottom 10% of schools in Florida. Predicted: 53.0%. Actual: 36.6%.
In Hillsborough County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $79,540, about 38% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county has 320 public schools and about 223,193 students.
KING HIGH SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is FLORIDA AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE, about 0.6 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. KING HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 36.6% against a local average of 42.3%.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school's enrollment fell 30% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 18.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 29.9:1.
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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
Other King High schools
One other US public school is named King High. KING HIGH SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- King High SchoolCORPUS CHRISTI, TX · 1,279 students
Nearby schools
- FLORIDA AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE0.6 mi · 152
- RIVERHILLS ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL0.9 mi · 497
- TAMPA BAY TECH HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 2,181
- ROBLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 472
- SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 396
- WILLIAMS MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL1.5 mi · 856
Frequently asked questions
About KING HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at KING HIGH SCHOOL?
KING HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,154 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does KING HIGH SCHOOL serve?
KING HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does KING HIGH SCHOOL have?
KING HIGH SCHOOL employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 29.9:1.
What is the student diversity at KING HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at KING HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 16% White, 22% Hispanic, 46% Black, 11% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is KING HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
KING 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.