NORTH TAMPA SUCCESS CENTER

Set in TAMPA, Florida, NORTH TAMPA SUCCESS CENTER is an one-room-style secondary school, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH. It works with 48 students across grades 6 through 12. That puts it 95% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; NORTH TAMPA SUCCESS CENTER is among them.

Demographically, NORTH TAMPA SUCCESS CENTER shows that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 31% Hispanic, 10% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 16% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting NORTH TAMPA SUCCESS CENTER tighter than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Hillsborough County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 NORTH TAMPA SUCCESS CENTER is one.

CAMINITI EXCEPTIONAL CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTH TAMPA SUCCESS CENTER.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 43%: 84 students in 2018 compared to 48 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 20% to 31% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 6.4:1 in 2025.

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