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Enrollment
2,130
High
DISTRICT 1,261 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087003185
WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL
20150 BRUCE B DOWNS BLVD, TAMPA, FL 33647 · (813) 631-4710 · Hillsborough County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,130 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
23.7:1
90 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.7:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
863 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 | 540 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 507 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 567 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 516 | 24% |
Student demographics
73%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
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
46.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.1pp since 2023
Math
28.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 down about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 40.9% | 33.0% |
% 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
43.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 61% 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 WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL
WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (43.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL this school | 2,130 | 40.5% | 43.8% |
| PALM BEACH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL WELLINGTON | 2,760 | 37.0% | 54.4% |
| GAINESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL GAINESVILLE | 1,825 | 45.0% | 46.8% |
| DR. PHILLIPS HIGH ORLANDO | 2,964 | 39.2% | 47.5% |
| MONARCH HIGH SCHOOL COCONUT CREEK | 2,213 | 34.3% | 56.8% |
| LARGO HIGH SCHOOL LARGO | 2,058 | 42.7% | 52.5% |
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 WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #428 of 555 | #26 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #438 of 549 ▼ 131 | #29 of 34 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #429 of 559 ▲ 4 | #21 of 34 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,130 | #145 of 830 | #15 of 47 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.7:1 | #380 of 575 | #4 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.4% | #9 of 594 | #2 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.5% | #351 of 630 | #17 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.8% | #105 of 289 | #7 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
2,130
+26 (+1%) vs 2020
-11% since 2000-01, when it was 2,397
Student : Teacher
23.7:1
was 18.0:1
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 | 2,130 | 89.7 | 23.7:1 | 41% (863) |
| 2023-24 | 2,186 | 99 | 22.1:1 | 45% (977) |
| 2022-23 | 2,289 | 97.5 | 23.5:1 | 46% (1,055) |
| 2020-21 | 2,104 | 117 | 18.0:1 | 58% (1,213) |
| 2017-18 | 2,471 | 127 | 19.5:1 | 53% (1,317) |
| 2015-16 | 2,421 | 124 | 19.5:1 | 52% (1,248) |
| 2010-11 | 2,463 | 131 | 18.8:1 | 42% (1,042) |
| 2000-01 | 2,397 | 142 | 16.9:1 | 33% (797) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL.
About WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL
WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL is a high school in TAMPA, Florida, and it is part of HILLSBOROUGH. It has an enrollment of 2,130 students in grades 9 through 12. That compares with an average of about 1,035 students for high schools in Florida.
HILLSBOROUGH has 221,318 students in 300 schools, and WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The largest group at WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL is Black students, at 32%. Smaller groups are 31% Hispanic, 25% White, 6% Asian, and 6% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Hillsborough County is roughly 16% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL scores 73%.
Staffing at WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL comes to 89.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 23.7:1. The ratio is within a point of the 23.5:1 average for high schools in Florida. On the income side, 41% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Hillsborough County average a similar 43%.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results for WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL is 60.9%. It actually posts 43.8%, which is 17.0 points lower and in the bottom 10% of Florida schools.
In the surrounding county, Hillsborough County, the median household earns about $79,540 a year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Hillsborough County has 320 public schools with about 223,193 students, including WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL.
WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.7 miles from TURNER-BARTELS K-8 SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL is behind the 64.3% nearby average, ranking 8th of 9.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 2,104 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 2,130. Students per teacher increased from 18.0 in 2020-21 to 23.7 in 2024-25.
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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
- GAITHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,040 students
- LETO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,995 students
Other Wharton High schools
One other US public school is named Wharton High. WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Wharton High SchoolWHARTON, TX · 566 students
Nearby schools
- TURNER-BARTELS K-8 SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,317
- CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 858
- SAND PINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 502
- HUNTER'S GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 788
- PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.2 mi · 980
- BENITO MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 903
Frequently asked questions
About WHARTON HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL?
WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 2,130 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL serve?
WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 23.7:1 students per teacher at WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL?
WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 25% White, 31% Hispanic, 32% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
WHARTON 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.