WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 20150 BRUCE B DOWNS BLVD, in TAMPA, Florida, WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL is a large secondary school that instructs 2,130 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by HILLSBOROUGH. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL sits 106% above that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black at 32%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 31% Hispanic, 25% White, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the resource side, On paper, WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL has 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 60.9%; this one comes in at 43.8%, -17.0 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hillsborough County indicate median household income runs about $79,540, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: TURNER-BARTELS K-8 SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 64.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL has decreased 14%, going from 2,471 students in 2018 to 2,130 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 25% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 today.

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