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LETO HIGH SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LETO HIGH SCHOOL
LETO HIGH SCHOOL operates as a big high school in TAMPA, Florida, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH. Current enrollment sits at 1,995 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so LETO HIGH SCHOOL sits 93% bigger than that benchmark.
Within HILLSBOROUGH, which oversees 300 schools and 221,318 students, LETO HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, LETO HIGH SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 8% White, 7% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, LETO HIGH SCHOOL lists 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.0:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.
After controlling for student poverty, LETO HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of -7.4 points.
In the area at large, Hillsborough County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which LETO HIGH SCHOOL is one.
CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LETO HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LETO HIGH SCHOOL has ticked down 13%, going from 2,298 students in 2018 to 1,995 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 in 2025.
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