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2023 Best Public Elementary Schools in the Tampa Area
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#1 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#1 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Tarpon Springs Fundamental Elementary School
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Pinellas County Schools, FL,
K-5,
Overall Niche Grade: A,
Students: 253,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 13 to 1,
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#2 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#2 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Dayspring Academy
Blue checkmark.
Pasco County School District, FL,
K-12,
21 Niche users give it an average review of 4.7 stars.
Featured Review: Sophomore says
I love Dayspring. This school has changed my life for the better. I started off a poor mid boy in the Verandas. My education was second class at River-Ridge but then, it all changed. My shining light….
Read 21 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A,
Students: 920,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 16 to 1,
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#3 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#3 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Plato Academy Clearwater
Blue checkmark.
Pinellas County Schools, FL,
K-8,
12 Niche users give it an average review of 4.3 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
This school has a great academic curriculum. I feel like all the teaches and staff really go above and beyond to help any and all students, also always just an email or phone call away if a parent…The school I feel is also very safe and takes the children’s safety very seriously!.
Read 12 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A,
Students: 524,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 13 to 1,
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#4 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#4 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
McKitrick Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
2 Niche users give it an average review of 3.5 stars.
Featured Review: Alum says
I lived very close so the commute was no problem but traffic does back up in the area sometimes. My teachers were always very nice, mostly woman not many men. Recess activities are top tier. Very….
Read 2 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 982,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 15 to 1,
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#5 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#5 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Bevis Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
12 Niche users give it an average review of 4.8 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
My daughter came to Bevis after issues with another local school. After only a week in her new kindergarten class, she was a happier student with more confidence and motivation to learn. The….
Read 12 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 836,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 15 to 1,
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#6 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#6 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Chiles Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
K-5,
5 Niche users give it an average review of 4.2 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
Chiles is a wonderful school with great teachers and a caring administration. There absolutely are community outreach programs at this school and all are invited to participate. I am a minority and…community. There may be a tiny group, that is not a reflection of the school, that may act exclusive, but that has only happened recently and again, does not reflect on the values of the school. ….
Read 5 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 864,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 15 to 1,
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#7 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#7 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
MacFarlane Park Magnet School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
K-5,
1 Niche users give it an average review of 5 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
Best Elementary School in Tampa Bay. Kids reading levels and parent involvement are excellent. Projects they conduct are very informative..
Read 1 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 367,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 14 to 1,
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#8 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#8 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Pasadena Fundamental Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Pinellas County Schools, FL,
K-5,
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 462,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 15 to 1,
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#9 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#9 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Pride Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
4 Niche users give it an average review of 3.8 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
They’re amazing. My daughter went to pride and still says pride was the best school she ever went to. True the car line is a little long is you take the bus you won’t get in trouble. All my kids….
Read 4 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 840,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 16 to 1,
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#10 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#10 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Lutz Preparatory School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
K-8,
2 Niche users give it an average review of 2.5 stars.
Featured Review: Alum says
Amazing teachers (for the most part). I met amazing people and made friends I’ll keep forever. I also feel that Lutz Prep provided education that helped prepare me for more rigorous high school….
Read 2 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 782,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 16 to 1,
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#11 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#11 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Sutherland Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Pinellas County Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
4 Niche users give it an average review of 5 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
My daughter attends this school and overall it is a honor and privilege be affiliated with such an amazing educational system. My daughter attends her first year in Kindergarten and I could not ask….
Read 4 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 614,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 14 to 1,
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#12 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#12 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Challenger School of Science & Mathematics
Hernando County School District, FL,
K-8,
2 Niche users give it an average review of 4.5 stars.
Featured Review: Senior says
Hands down the best school in the county. So many resources are in place to help children Excel in their field..
Read 2 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 1,307,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 16 to 1,
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#13 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#13 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Roland Park Magnet School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
K-8,
2 Niche users give it an average review of 4.5 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
A-rated school, very diversed, with wonderful and caring teacher! It helps students related with other from various backgrounds, which is essential in todays corporate world..
Read 2 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 785,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 15 to 1,
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#14 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#14 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Curtis Fundamental Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Pinellas County Schools, FL,
K-5,
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 529,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 16 to 1,
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#15 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#15 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Bryant Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
1 Niche users give it an average review of 5 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
The teachers take whole hearted initiatives to seed the curiosities in children, so that they can try things on their own and learn to remember for life. Office staff and management are very….
Read 1 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 879,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 15 to 1,
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#16 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#16 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Schwarzkopf Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 563,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 14 to 1,
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#17 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#17 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Gorrie Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 514,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 13 to 1,
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#18 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#18 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Plato Academy Charter School Tarpon Springs
Blue checkmark.
Pinellas County Schools, FL,
K-8,
5 Niche users give it an average review of 4 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
My child has been a student at Plato Academy Tarpon Springs for the last 4 years. We have had a great experience at this school. The teachers are wonderful, the technology is excellent and I love….
Read 5 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 360,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 13 to 1,
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#19 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#19 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Westchase Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
1 Niche users give it an average review of 4 stars.
Featured Review: Niche User says
one of my younger relatives goes here and my main and pretty much only problem is the fact is that there is not as much diversity as i was led to believe. He enjoys going to school which is great but….
Read 1 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 875,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 15 to 1,
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#20 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#20 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Orange Grove Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Pinellas County Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
1 Niche users give it an average review of 3 stars.
Read 1 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 400,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 14 to 1,
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#21 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#21 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Roosevelt Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 727,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 14 to 1,
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#22 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#22 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Clark Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
8 Niche users give it an average review of 4. 8 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
It is such a good school! I definitely think they deserve a higher ranking in Florida. The teachers are so amazing. Clark is the best!.
Read 8 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 779,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 13 to 1,
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#23 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#23 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Deer Park Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
1 Niche users give it an average review of 5 stars.
Featured Review: Senior says
Deer Park Elementary was amazing while I was there. They have amazing teachers, great curriculum, and amazing clubs. I learned so much there that has helped me through to this point of life. The….
Read 1 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 846,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 14 to 1,
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#24 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#24 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Pinellas Primary Academy
Blue checkmark.
Pinellas County Schools, FL,
K-3,
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 324,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 14 to 1,
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#25 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area
#25 Best Public Elementary Schools in Tampa Area.
Stowers Elementary School
Blue checkmark.
Hillsborough County Public Schools, FL,
PK, K-5,
1 Niche users give it an average review of 5 stars.
Featured Review: Parent says
Amazing administration and teachers who truly care about their students. The extracurricular activities keep our children involved..
Read 1 reviews.
Overall Niche Grade: A minus,
Students: 818,
Student-Teacher Ratio: 14 to 1,
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Academy Of The Holy Names |
Private | 920 | 11. 0 | ||
Academy Prep Center Of Tampa |
Private | 127 | 8.0 | ||
Adams Middle School |
Public | 897 | 13.6 | 84% | |
Alexander Elementary School |
Public | 605 | 12.6 | 91% | |
American Youth Academy |
Private | 543 | 5. 0 | ||
Ami Kids Tampa |
Public | 16 | 8.0 | 63% | |
Anderson Elementary School |
Public | 384 | 11.3 | 56% | |
Aparicio-levy Technical College |
Public | 0.0 | |||
Ballast Point Elementary School |
Public | 421 | 11. 4 | 37% | |
Bay Crest Elementary School |
Public | 714 | 13.2 | 75% | |
Bayshore Christian School |
Private | 241 | 9.0 | ||
Beach Park School |
Private | 76 | 6.0 | ||
Bellamy Elementary School |
Public | 671 | 12. 2 | 84% | |
Benito Middle School |
Public | 1,043 | 17.1 | 46% | |
Bible Truth Ministries Academy |
Private | 113 | 15.0 | ||
Bing Elementary School |
Public | 643 | 12.4 | 94% | |
Bowers/whitley Adult & Community Center |
Public | 0. 0 | |||
Brewster Technical College |
Public | 0.0 | |||
Bridgeprep Academy Of Tampa |
Public | 233 | 12.3 | 19% | |
Broward Elementary School |
Public | 377 | 9.7 | 95% | |
Bryant Elementary School |
Public | 975 | 14. 1 | 11% | |
Buchanan Middle School |
Public | 683 | 12.6 | 78% | |
Cahoon Elementary Magnet School |
Public | 440 | 11.6 | 84% | |
Caminiti Exceptional Center |
Public | 109 | 3.9 | 79% | |
Cannella Elementary School |
Public | 717 | 13. 5 | 76% | |
Carrollwood Elementary School |
Public | 800 | 12.5 | 44% | |
Carver Exceptional Center |
Public | 62 | 5.6 | 95% | |
Center For Education School Of The Arts And Scienc |
Private | 38 | 19.0 | ||
Chamberlain Adult/community Center |
Public | 0. 0 | |||
Channelside Academy Middle School |
Public | 150 | 16.7 | 18% | |
Channelside Academy Of Math And Science |
Public | 376 | 11.4 | 14% | |
Chiaramonte Elementary School |
Public | 375 | 11.0 | 71% | |
Chiles Elementary School |
Public | 842 | 14. 0 | 41% | |
Christ The King Catholic School |
Private | 548 | 15.0 | ||
Circle C Ranch Academy |
Private | 83 | 3.0 | ||
Citrus Park Christian School |
Private | 326 | 11.0 | ||
Citrus Park Elementary School |
Public | 602 | 12. 0 | 61% | |
Clair-mel Elementary School |
Public | 631 | 11.3 | 96% | |
Clark Elementary School |
Public | 854 | 13.1 | 43% | |
Claywell Elementary School |
Public | 791 | 13.0 | 54% | |
Cleveland Elementary School |
Public | 374 | 9. 6 | 97% | |
Coleman Middle School |
Public | 925 | 17.1 | 19% | |
Columbus Residential Juvenile Facility |
Public | 47 | 11.8 | 94% | |
Community Charter School Of Excellence |
Public | 211 | 14.1 | 97% | |
Community Montessori School Civic |
Private | 46 | 14. 0 | ||
Community Montessori School Webb |
Private | 64 | 5.0 | ||
Crestwood Elementary School |
Public | 887 | 13.6 | 88% | |
Davidsen Middle School |
Public | 951 | 17.0 | 60% | |
Davis Elementary School |
Public | 797 | 11. 1 | 86% | |
Deer Park Elementary School |
Public | 933 | 14.4 | 26% | |
Delia Sanchez Full Service School |
Public | 16 | 16.0 | 81% | |
Desoto Elementary School |
Public | 241 | 8.0 | 98% | |
Detention Center West |
Public | 98 | 14. 0 | 42% | |
Dickenson Elementary School |
Public | 619 | 13.2 | 84% | |
Dorothy Thomas Center |
Public | 68 | 3.0 | 74% | |
Dowdell Middle Magnet School |
Public | 616 | 14.7 | 92% | |
Dunbar Elementary Magnet School |
Public | 274 | 9. 4 | 88% | |
Edison Elementary School |
Public | 494 | 8.4 | 96% | |
Egypt Lake Elementary School |
Public | 574 | 13.7 | 91% | |
Erwin Technical College |
Public | 0.0 | |||
Ese Birth Thru Age 5 |
Public | 359 | 22. 4 | 1% | |
Essrig Elementary School |
Public | 676 | 13.3 | 60% | |
Faith Outreach Academy |
Private | 172 | 11.0 | ||
Falkenburg Road Jail |
Public | 47 | 15.7 | 19% | |
Family Of Christ Christian School |
Private | 364 | 11. 0 | ||
Farnell Middle School |
Public | 1,363 | 19.2 | 26% | |
Ferrell Middle Magnet School |
Public | 505 | 12.9 | 74% | |
Florida Autism Charter School Of Excellence |
Public | 92 | 5.8 | 57% | |
Forest Hills Elementary School |
Public | 1,067 | 13. 7 | 92% | |
Foster Elementary School |
Public | 494 | 10.3 | 94% | |
Franklin Middle Magnet School |
Public | 501 | 12.8 | 64% | |
Friendship Christian Academy |
Private | 91 | 10.0 | ||
Gary Adult Center |
Public | 0. 0 | |||
Gateway Christian Academy |
Private | 127 | 7.0 | ||
Gorrie Elementary School |
Public | 568 | 12.6 | 17% | |
Grady Elementary School |
Public | 453 | 11.9 | 39% | |
Graham Elementary School |
Public | 403 | 11. 2 | 97% | |
Harvest Time Christian School |
Private | 121 | 13.0 | ||
Henderson Hammock Charter School |
Public | 1,121 | 13.3 | 32% | |
Heritage Elementary School |
Public | 672 | 12.7 | 49% | |
Hill Middle School |
Public | 832 | 16. 3 | 59% | |
Hillsborough Academy Of Math And Science |
Public | 746 | 13.3 | 23% | |
Hillsborough Ese Contracted Residential Placement |
Public | 3 | |||
Hillsborough Girls Academy |
Public | 17 | 5.7 | 82% | |
Hillsborough Virt Instr Prgs |
Public | 0. 0 | |||
Hillsborough Virtual Franchise High School |
Public | 8 | 8.0 | 25% | |
Hillsborough Virtual Instruction Course Offerings |
Public | 30 | 2.3 | 83% | |
Hillsborough Virtual School |
Public | 321 | 8.2 | 24% | |
Hillsdale Christian Academy |
Private | 145 | 8. 0 | ||
Holy Trinity Lutheran School |
Private | 142 | 13.0 | ||
Hope Christian School |
Private | 67 | 8.0 | ||
Horizon Charter School Of Tampa |
Public | 267 | 14.1 | 25% | |
Hospital/homebound/homebased Programs |
Public | 151 | 2. 1 | 35% | |
Humpty Dumpty Academy |
Private | 20 | 8.0 | ||
Hunter’s Green Elementary School |
Public | 822 | 13.3 | 64% | |
Huntington Learning Center- Tampa |
Private | 28 | 5.0 | ||
James Elementary School |
Public | 645 | 12. 2 | 99% | |
Jefferson Adult/community Center |
Public | 0.0 | |||
Just Elementary School |
Public | 512 | 10.7 | 97% | |
Kenly Elementary School |
Public | 573 | 13.0 | 95% | |
Kimbell Elementary School |
Public | 551 | 10. 4 | 95% | |
Kings Kids Academy Of Health Sciences |
Public | 130 | 16.2 | 59% | |
Lake Academy |
Public | 47 | 23.5 | 94% | |
Lake Magdalene Elementary School |
Public | 879 | 13.3 | 61% | |
Lake Magdalene Umc Early Childhood Center |
Private | 223 | 9. 0 | ||
Lamb Elementary |
Public | 625 | 11.0 | 84% | |
Lanier Elementary School |
Public | 427 | 11.5 | 78% | |
Lavoy Exceptional Center |
Public | 90 | 3.8 | 68% | |
Learey Technical College |
Public | 0. 0 | |||
Lee Academy For Gifted Education |
Private | 68 | 4.0 | ||
Lee Elementary Magnet School |
Public | 316 | 13.7 | 75% | |
Legacy Preparatory Academy |
Public | 123 | 13.7 | 70% | |
Les Peters Academy |
Public | 22 | 5. 5 | 0% | |
Leto Adult/community Center |
Public | 0.0 | |||
Liberty Middle School |
Public | 1,244 | 18.3 | 60% | |
Literacy/leadership/technology Academy |
Public | 597 | 12.4 | 16% | |
Lockhart Elementary Magnet School |
Public | 389 | 8. 6 | 92% | |
Lomax Magnet Elementary School |
Public | 387 | 13.3 | 70% | |
Lowry Elementary School |
Public | 902 | 13.5 | 37% | |
Mabry Elementary School |
Public | 755 | 13.2 | 13% | |
Macfarlane Park Elementary Magnet School |
Public | 369 | 14. 8 | 35% | |
Madison Middle School |
Public | 681 | 13.9 | 78% | |
Memorial Middle School |
Public | 645 | 12.9 | 93% | |
Mendenhall Elementary School |
Public | 690 | 12.1 | 89% | |
Mendez Exceptional Center |
Public | 23 | 3. 3 | 78% | |
Miles Elementary School |
Public | 816 | 11.3 | 96% | |
Mitchell Elementary School |
Public | 669 | 13.9 | 30% | |
Monroe Middle School |
Public | 395 | 11.0 | 84% | |
Montessori Academy Of Carrollwood |
Private | 21 | 2. 0 | ||
Montessori Academy Of Tampa Bay |
Private | 129 | 4.0 | ||
Montessori Early Learning Center |
Private | 3 | 1.0 | ||
Morgan Woods Elementary School |
Public | 533 | 11.3 | 85% | |
Morning Star Catholic School Tampa |
Private | 78 | 7. 0 | ||
Mort Elementary School |
Public | 831 | 10.8 | 94% | |
Mosi Partnership Elementary School |
Public | 257 | 9.5 | 94% | |
Mt Calvary Sda Junior Academy |
Private | 90 | 11.0 | ||
Muller Elementary Magnet School |
Public | 363 | 11. 0 | 82% | |
New Springs Schools |
Public | 330 | 9.7 | 79% | |
North Tampa Alternative School |
Public | 122 | 13.6 | 93% | |
Northdale Lutheran School |
Private | 58 | 12.0 | ||
Northwest Elementary School |
Public | 645 | 14. 3 | 41% | |
Oak Grove Elementary School |
Public | 868 | 12.8 | 92% | |
Oak Park Elementary School |
Public | 578 | 10.5 | 97% | |
Orange Grove Middle Magnet School |
Public | 530 | 14.3 | 56% | |
Pace Center For Girls |
Public | 54 | 9. 0 | 20% | |
Pace Private School System |
Private | 20 | 5.0 | ||
Palm River Elementary School |
Public | 513 | 9.9 | 94% | |
Patricia Sullivan Metropolitan Ministries Partnership School |
Public | 102 | 12.8 | 97% | |
Pepin Academies |
Public | 694 | 8. 5 | 19% | |
Pierce Middle School |
Public | 909 | 14.0 | 90% | |
Pizzo Elementary School |
Public | 761 | 10.9 | 90% | |
Potter Elementary School |
Public | 656 | 11.3 | 99% | |
Pride Elementary School |
Public | 953 | 14. 0 | 25% | |
Progress Village Christian Academy |
Private | 110 | 8.0 | ||
Progress Village Middle Magnet School |
Public | 869 | 16.1 | 54% | |
Rampello K-8 Magnet School |
Public | 765 | 14.2 | 41% | |
Richardson Montessori Academy |
Public | 27 | 13. 5 | 33% | |
Robles Elementary School |
Public | 773 | 11.4 | 94% | |
Roland Park K-8 Magnet School |
Public | 800 | 12.9 | 36% | |
Roosevelt Elementary School |
Public | 695 | 13.6 | 11% | |
Seminole Elementary School |
Public | 501 | 10. 9 | 79% | |
Sergeant Paul R Smith Middle School |
Public | 804 | 15.8 | 69% | |
Shaw Elementary School |
Public | 756 | 11.5 | 96% | |
Sheehy Elementary School |
Public | 459 | 11.2 | 94% | |
Shore Elementary Magnet School |
Public | 381 | 10. 6 | 77% | |
Sligh Middle School |
Public | 453 | 10.1 | 92% | |
St Johns Episcopal Parish Day School |
Private | 549 | 10.0 | ||
St Joseph Catholic School Tampa |
Private | 252 | 14.0 | ||
St Lawrence Catholic School |
Private | 541 | 16. 0 | ||
St Marys Episcopal Day School |
Private | 449 | 10.0 | ||
St Peter Claver Catholic School |
Private | 219 | 10.0 | ||
Stewart Middle Magnet School |
Public | 951 | 15.8 | 73% | |
Sulphur Springs Elementary School |
Public | 775 | 11. 1 | 97% | |
Sun Coast Preparatory |
Private | 4 | 1.0 | ||
Tampa Adventist Academy |
Private | 146 | 11.0 | ||
Tampa Bay Boulevard Elementary School |
Public | 743 | 11.6 | 91% | |
Tampa Bay Christian Academy |
Private | 266 | 10. 0 | ||
Tampa Day School |
Private | 146 | 7.0 | ||
Tampa Palms Elementary School |
Public | 917 | 13.3 | 39% | |
Tampa Residential Facility |
Public | 49 | 7.0 | 94% | |
The Broach School Of Tampa |
Private | 63 | 13. 0 | ||
The Goddard School For Early Childhood Devt |
Private | 104 | 5.0 | ||
The Montessori Children’s House Of Hyde Park |
Private | 71 | 10.0 | ||
The Montessori House Day School |
Private | 144 | 3.0 | ||
The Montessori House Day School |
Private | 54 | 1. 0 | ||
The Paideia School Of Tampa Bay |
Private | 95 | 8.0 | ||
Tinker K-8 School |
Public | 685 | 14.3 | 29% | |
Town ‘n Country Christian Academy |
Private | 64 | 14.0 | ||
Town & Country Elementary School |
Public | 417 | 11. 9 | 90% | |
Trinity School For Children |
Public | 764 | 13.4 | 5% | |
Turner-bartels K-8 School |
Public | 1,878 | 14.0 | 37% | |
Twin Lakes Elementary School |
Public | 702 | 11.7 | 88% | |
Universal Academy Of Florida |
Private | 644 | 13. 0 | ||
Usf/patel Partnership Elementary School |
Public | 205 | 12.8 | 67% | |
Van Buren Middle School |
Public | 454 | 11.1 | 96% | |
Victory Christian Academy |
Private | 19 | 7.0 | ||
Villa Madonna School |
Private | 353 | 11. 0 | ||
Village Of Excellence Academy Middle School |
Public | 111 | 12.3 | 37% | |
Walton Academy |
Public | 209 | 13.9 | 100% | |
Washington Elementary School |
Public | 544 | 10.1 | 98% | |
Waters Career Center |
Public | 183 | 12. 2 | 85% | |
Webb Middle School |
Public | 815 | 14.1 | 87% | |
West Gate Christian School |
Private | 137 | 9.0 | ||
West Tampa Elementary School |
Public | 530 | 11.5 | 96% | |
Westchase Elementary School |
Public | 955 | 13. 8 | 19% | |
Westshore Elementary School |
Public | 355 | 12.2 | 77% | |
Williams Middle Magnet School |
Public | 868 | 17.7 | 35% | |
Wilson Middle School |
Public | 633 | 17.1 | 24% | |
Windsor Learning Academy |
Private | 48 | 8. 0 | ||
Witter Elementary School |
Public | 611 | 11.8 | 94% | |
Woodbridge Elementary School |
Public | 641 | 12.1 | 86% | |
Young Middle Magnet School |
Public | 596 | 15.3 | 84% |
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Rank: #11.
Lutz Preparatory School
Charter School
Math: 93% | Reading: 91%
Rank:
Top 5%
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17951 N Us Highway 41
Lutz, FL 33549
(813) 428-7100
Grades: K-8
| 782 students
Rank: #22.
Terrace Community Middle School
Charter School
Math: 94% | Reading: 89%
Rank:
Top 5%
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11734 Jefferson Rd
Thonotosassa, FL 33592
(813) 987-6555
Grades: 6-8
| 656 students
Rank: #33.
Bevis Elementary School
Math: 88% | Reading: 88%
Rank:
Top 5%
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5720 Osprey Ridge Dr
Lithia, FL 33547
(813) 740-4000
Grades: PK-5
| 836 students
Rank: #44.
Roosevelt Elementary School
Math: 87% | Reading: 86%
Rank:
Top 5%
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3205 S Ferdinand Ave
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 272-3090
Grades: PK-5
| 727 students
Rank: #55.
Mckitrick Elementary School
Math: 85% | Reading: 89%
Rank:
Top 5%
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5503 W Lutz Lake Fern Rd
Lutz, FL 33558
(813) 558-5427
Grades: PK-5
| 982 students
Rank: #66.
Randall Middle School
Math: 89% | Reading: 82%
Rank:
Top 5%
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16510 Fishhawk Blvd
Lithia, FL 33547
(813) 740-3900
Grades: 6-8
| 1,326 students
Rank: #77.
Martinez Middle School
Math: 88% | Reading: 82%
Rank:
Top 5%
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5601 W Lutz Lake Fern Rd
Lutz, FL 33558
(813) 558-1190
Grades: 6-8
| 1,200 students
Rank: #88.
Williams Middle Magnet School
Magnet School
Math: 87% | Reading: 83%
Rank:
Top 5%
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5020 N 47th St
Tampa, FL 33610
(813) 744-8600
Grades: 6-8
| 847 students
Rank: #99.
Gorrie Elementary School
Math: 86% | Reading: 84%
Rank:
Top 5%
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705 W Deleon St
Tampa, FL 33606
(813) 276-5673
Grades: K-5
| 514 students
Rank: #1010.
Bell Creek Academy
Charter School
Math: 87% | Reading: 82%
Rank:
Top 5%
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13221 Boyette Rd
Riverview, FL 33569
(813) 793-6075
Grades: 6-8
| 530 students
Rank: #11 – 1211. – 12.
Coleman Middle School
Math: 86% | Reading: 81%
Rank:
Top 10%
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1724 S Manhattan Ave
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 872-5335
Grades: 6-8
| 1,021 students
Rank: #11 – 1211. – 12.
Walker Middle Magnet School
Magnet School
Math: 86% | Reading: 81%
Rank:
Top 10%
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8282 N Mobley Rd
Odessa, FL 33556
(813) 631-4726
Grades: 6-8
| 1,024 students
Rank: #1313.
Bryant Elementary School
Math: 85% | Reading: 81%
Rank:
Top 10%
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13910 Nine Eagles Dr
Tampa, FL 33626
(813) 356-1645
Grades: PK-5
| 879 students
Rank: #1414.
Pride Elementary School
Math: 82% | Reading: 85%
Rank:
Top 10%
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10310 Lions Den Dr
Tampa, FL 33647
(813) 558-5400
Grades: PK-5
| 840 students
Rank: #1515.
Westchase Elementary School
Math: 83% | Reading: 82%
Rank:
Top 10%
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9517 W Linebaugh Ave
Tampa, FL 33626
(813) 631-4600
Grades: PK-5
| 875 students
Rank: #1616.
Macfarlane Park Elementary Magnet School
Magnet School
Math: 80-84% | Reading: 80-84%
Rank:
Top 10%
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1721 N Macdill Ave
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 356-1760
Grades: K-5
| 367 students
Rank: #1717.
Wilson Middle School
Math: 84% | Reading: 78%
Rank:
Top 10%
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1005 W Swann Ave
Tampa, FL 33606
(813) 276-5682
Grades: 6-8
| 597 students
Rank: #18 – 1918. – 19.
Fishhawk Creek Elementary School
Math: 83% | Reading: 79%
Rank:
Top 10%
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16815 Dorman Rd
Lithia, FL 33547
(813) 651-2150
Grades: PK-5
| 962 students
Rank: #18 – 1918. – 19.
Stowers Elementary School
Math: 83% | Reading: 79%
Rank:
Top 10%
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13915 Barrington Stowers Dr
Lithia, FL 33547
(813) 657-7431
Grades: PK-5
| 818 students
Rank: #20 – 2120. – 21.
Deer Park Elementary School
Math: 81% | Reading: 81%
Rank:
Top 10%
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11605 Citrus Park Dr
Tampa, FL 33626
(813) 854-6031
Grades: PK-5
| 846 students
Rank: #20 – 2120. – 21.
Mabry Elementary School
Math: 81% | Reading: 81%
Rank:
Top 10%
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4201 W Estrella St
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 872-5364
Grades: PK-5
| 812 students
Rank: #2222.
Schwarzkopf Elementary School
Math: 83% | Reading: 77%
Rank:
Top 10%
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18333 Calusa Trace Blvd
Lutz, FL 33558
(813) 975-6945
Grades: PK-5
| 563 students
Rank: #2323.
Hammond Elementary School
Math: 81% | Reading: 79%
Rank:
Top 10%
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8008 N Mobley Rd
Odessa, FL 33556
(813) 792-5120
Grades: PK-5
| 694 students
Rank: #24 – 2524. – 25.
Horizon Charter School Of Tampa
Charter School
Math: 80-84% | Reading: 75-79%
Rank:
Top 10%
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7235 W Hillsborough Ave
Tampa, FL 33634
(813) 887-3800
Grades: K-8
| 327 students
Rank: #24 – 2524. – 25.
Mitchell Elementary School
Math: 82% | Reading: 77%
Rank:
Top 10%
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205 S Bungalow Park Ave
Tampa, FL 33609
(813) 872-5216
Grades: PK-5
| 688 students
Rank: #2626.
Grady Elementary School
Math: 80% | Reading: 80%
Rank:
Top 10%
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3910 W Morrison Ave
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 872-5325
Grades: PK-5
| 482 students
Rank: #2727.
Chiles Elementary School
Math: 83% | Reading: 76%
Rank:
Top 10%
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16541 Tampa Palms Blvd W
Tampa, FL 33647
(813) 558-5422
Grades: PK-5
| 864 students
Rank: #28 – 2928. – 29.
Farnell Middle School
Math: 81% | Reading: 78%
Rank:
Top 10%
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13912 Nine Eagles Dr
Tampa, FL 33626
(813) 356-1640
Grades: 6-8
| 1,203 students
Rank: #28 – 2928. – 29.
Roland Park K-8 Magnet School
Magnet School
Math: 81% | Reading: 78%
Rank:
Top 10%
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1510 N Manhattan Ave
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 872-5212
Grades: K-8
| 785 students
Rank: #3030.
Valrico Lake Advantage Academy
Charter School
Math: 78% | Reading: 81%
Rank:
Top 20%
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13306 Boyette Rd
Riverview, FL 33569
(813) 699-5049
Grades: K-5
| 916 students
Rank: #3131.
Alafia Elementary School
Math: 76% | Reading: 80%
Rank:
Top 20%
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3535 Culbreath Rd
Valrico, FL 33596
(813) 744-8190
Grades: PK-5
| 596 students
Rank: #3232.
Winthrop Charter School
Charter School
Math: 80% | Reading: 74%
Rank:
Top 20%
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6204 Scholars Hill Ln
Riverview, FL 33578
(813) 235-4811
Grades: K-8
| 1,330 students
Rank: #3333.
Clark Elementary School
Math: 81% | Reading: 73%
Rank:
Top 20%
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19002 Wood Sage Dr
Tampa, FL 33647
(813) 631-4333
Grades: PK-5
| 779 students
Rank: #3434.
Northwest Elementary School
Math: 76% | Reading: 77%
Rank:
Top 20%
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16438 Hutchison Rd
Tampa, FL 33625
(813) 975-7315
Grades: PK-5
| 665 students
Rank: #3535.
Steinbrenner High School
Math: 73% | Reading: 79%
Rank:
Top 20%
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5575 W Lutz Lake Fern Rd
Lutz, FL 33558
(813) 792-5131
Grades: 9-12
| 2,489 students
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Hillsborough – 901 East Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, FL
Schools
Grades
Students
217072
Type
UNIFIED
901 East Kennedy Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33602
(813) 272-4050
http://www.sdhc.k12.fl.us/
Florida Standards Assessment
Hillsborough
Based on data from the 2018 school year
Mabry Elementary School
Grades
Students
As a parent who’s kindergartner goes to this school. I seriously could not be happier. The teachers truly love the students. She hugs my son every single morning and makes every student feel SAFE and comfortable at school. That doesn’t mean they let things slide though. Which is great! Bullying and being inappropriate is completely unacceptable to them. And will notify and call the parent as soon as a child is not being kind. They work with my son and he has so many friends. Is starting to read. And feels loved and safe. The communication between his teacher is amazing as well. We LOVE it here!
PUBLIC
Bevis Elementary School
Grades
Students
A+ Bevis is an awesome school. We are so blessed to be able to send our two boys to Bevis. It’s not an easy school and the parents need to be involved to succeed.
PUBLIC
Lutz Preparatory Academy
Grades
Students
Excellent curriculum and teachers in both elementary and middle school. I do believe most ideal fit is for a child who enjoys school and being “pushed” academically. Gifted program at the public school we came from was less rigorous then the regular classroom work/ expectations at Lutz Prep. My child certainly had to adjust to the work expectations and extra attention is focused on student development instead of teaching to test. We are also enjoying the after school activities such as the musical theatre club and variety of sports, some of which are no cut so everyone can participate.
CHARTER
Hammond Elementary School
Grades
Students
I have been involved with this school since it opened back in 2007. I was on the original PTA Board and it’s been an exceptional school since day #1. The teachers at Hammond are phenomenal and they deeply care for their students and ALL of their kindergarten teachers are fantastic. The quality of education here is second to none. My older children got a fabulous foundation and they both have gone off to college for engineer with full scholarships. My two younger children are also excelling at Hammond. The Advance Gifted Program is extremely enriching and the school even offer a multitude of after school programs such Math Clubs. The PTA at Hammond is strong and creative. They have raised a lot of money over the years and it will be clear to see when you tour the school. The school is lucky to have an abundance of volunteer and not a shortage which enables the school to host a number of fun activities throughout the yr such as the Wolf Cub Prowl, Field Day and Jump Rope For Hearts just to make a few. There are opportunities to get to know other families every month at different area restaurants that host the school’s Family Fun Nights where a certain percentage is returned to the school. So is you are considering this area you will not be disappointed. Keystone (the Odessa’s part of zip 33556that is in Hillsborough Co) is beautiful, safe and very family oriented. I have lived in this area for almost 20 yrs and although it’s grown it’s still a very small and close knit community and the middle schools and High Schools in the are just as wonderful.
PUBLIC
Stowers Elementary School
Grades
Students
Not happy with this school. Military family in & out of a lot of schools…13 different ones so far between both of my kids. This one is one of the worst we’ve attended. Very behind academically & socially. Not enough of variety of work & recess may as well be nonexistent. Only 10 mins per day & not everyday! Kids learn so much better when they have more outdoor time! If your child likes sports this is not the school for you! Basketball goals are not accessible during recess & there is no school gym! Our last school my son had 3 recess per day everyday & PE on some days. There was a basketball court, kickball field, & lots of playground equipment all in the same area & a gym in addition to that! They also held a lot more parent/student activities. He thrived academically & enjoyed attending school! The only plus to this school are the friends he has made!
PUBLIC
Hillsborough schools – Hillsborough is a unified school district that is located at 901 East Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa FL 33602. The school district serves 217072 students in grades PK-12.There are 329 schools associated with this district.
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Top 20 Best Private Schools in Tampa, FL (2022-23)
School
Location
Grades
Students
Hillsdale Christian Academy
(Baptist)
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6201 Ehrlich Rd
Tampa, FL 33625
(813) 884-8250
Grades: PK-12
| 150 students
The Montessori House Day School
Montessori School
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5117 Ehrlich Rd
Tampa, FL 33624
(813) 961-9295
Grades: PK-6
| 142 students
Victory Christian Academy
(Baptist)
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(3)
6202 S Macdill Ave
Tampa, FL 33611
(813) 773-5912
Grades: NS-K
| 4 students
Academy Of The Holy Names
(Catholic)
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3319 Bayshore Blvd
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 839-5371
Grades: PK-12
| 962 students
American Youth Academy
(Islamic)
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(5)
5905 E 130th Avenue
Tampa, FL 33617
(813) 987-9282
Grades: PK-12
| 517 students
Beach Park School
Montessori School
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4200 W North A St
Tampa, FL 33609
(813) 289-3747
Grades: PK-8
| 70 students
Berkeley Preparatory School
(Episcopal)
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4811 Kelly Road
Tampa, FL 33615
(813) 885-1673
Grades: PK-12
| n/a students
Cambridge Christian School
(Christian)
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(3)
6101 N Habana Ave
Tampa, FL 33614
(813) 872-6744
Grades: NS-12
| 681 students
Carrollwood Day School
Special Program Emphasis
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1515 W. Bearss Avenue
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 920-2288
Grades: NS-12
| 1,124 students
Christ The King Catholic School
(Catholic)
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(4)
3809 W Morrison Avenue
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 876-8770
Grades: PK-8
| 516 students
Community Montessori School
Montessori School
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4930 Webb Road and 8411 Civic Road
Tampa, FL 33615
(813) 886-3969
Grades: NS-9
| 135 students
Corbett Preparatory School of IDS
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12015 Orange Grove Drive
Tampa, FL 33618
(813) 961-3087
Grades: PK-8
| 550 students
Family Of Christ Christian School
(Lutheran Church Missouri Synod)
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16190 Bruce B Downs Blvd
Tampa, FL 33647
(813) 558-9343
Grades: NS-8
| 392 students
Florida College Academy
(Church of Christ)
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7032 Temple Terrace Hwy
Tampa, FL 33637
(813) 899-6800
Grades: PK-8
| 249 students
Holy Trinity Lutheran School
(Lutheran Church Missouri Synod)
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3712 W El Prado Blvd
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 839-0665
Grades: PK-4
| 180 students
Incarnation Catholic School
(Catholic)
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5111 Webb Rd
Tampa, FL 33615
(813) 884-4502
Grades: PK-8
| 341 students
Jesuit High School
All-boys (Catholic)
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4701 N Himes Avenue
Tampa, FL 33614
(813) 877-5344
Grades: 9-12
| 861 students
Land of Learning Academy
Daycare / Preschool
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8809 W Robson Street
Tampa, FL 33615
(813) 886-6494
Grades: NS-1
| 439 students
Missionary Christian Academy
(Pentecostal)
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10902 N. Armenia Avenue
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 545-5232
Grades: 1-12
| 65 students
Morning Star Catholic School Tampa
Special Education School (Catholic)
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210 E Linebaugh Avenue
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 935-0232
Grades: 1-8
| 80 students
Most Holy Redeemer School
(Catholic)
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302 E Linebaugh Ave
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 933-4750
Grades: K-8
| 310 students
Mt. Calvary Sda Junior Academy
Daycare / Preschool (Seventh Day Adventist)
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3111 E Wilder Ave
Tampa, FL 33610
(813) 238-0433
Grades: K
| 20 students
St. Johns Episcopal Parish Day School
(Episcopal)
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240 S. Plant Ave.
Tampa, FL 33606
(813) 849-5200
Grades: PK-8
| 575 students
St. Joseph Catholic School Tampa
(Catholic)
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2200 N Gomez Ave
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 879-7720
Grades: PK-8
| 272 students
St. Lawrence Catholic School
(Catholic)
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5223 N Himes Ave
Tampa, FL 33614
(813) 879-5090
Grades: PK-8
| 495 students
St. Marys Episcopal Day School
(Episcopal)
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2101 S Hubert Avenue
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 258-5508
Grades: PK-8
| 447 students
Tampa Bay Christian Academy
(Christian)
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6815 North Rome Ave
Tampa, FL 33604
(813) 343-0600
Grades: NS-12
| 267 students
Tampa Catholic High School
(Catholic)
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4630 N Rome Ave
Tampa, FL 33603
(813) 870-0860
Grades: 9-12
| 764 students
Tampa Preparatory School
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Tampa, FL 33606
(813) 251-8481
Grades: 6-12
| 700 students
Universal Academy Of Florida
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Tampa, FL 33610
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Grades: PK-12
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West Gate Christian School
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Tampa, FL 33615
(813) 884-5147
Grades: PK-12
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Tampa, FL 33605
(813) 248-5600
Grades: 5-8
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Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 254-5271
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Tampa, FL 33611
(813) 839-4297
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Tampa, FL 33610
(813) 231-9177
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Hillsborough’s struggling schools attempt a ‘transformation.’ Can it work?
With 35 “persistently low-performing” schools — more than any other Florida county — the road ahead is uncertain.
In the videos, children crawl on the floor and talk excitedly with their table mates. They stand in front of Alexandra Maley’s third-grade classroom at Kenly Elementary in Tampa, explaining how they solved a word problem.
A group of Hillsborough County school leaders watches the clips with rapt attention, because everyone wants to discern the magic. Kenly’s state grade shot from a D to a B last year, largely on the strength of students’ math scores.
How does that happen?
Is it the way a team of teachers analyzes wrong answers to pinpoint which concepts need a quick review? Is it the calming voice of teacher Tiffany Brown as she tells her class: “Read the problem. Read it once, read it twice, but read it until you are able to comprehend.”
The answers don’t come easily. The magic is elusive.
The ‘Transformation Network’ is born
Despite numerous initiatives and tens of millions of dollars spent, Hillsborough County continues to have far more schools than any other Florida district deemed “persistently low-performing” by the state.
And no one, it seems, can say why.
Hillsborough has 35 schools on the list. No other district has more than 18, including the two that are bigger. Pinellas County has six. Pasco County two.
The reasons for the disparity might include poverty and language barriers, discipline problems and punitive state tests, according to principals, teachers and administrators interviewed by the Tampa Bay Times.
But these same challenges exist everywhere in Florida, as does the latest culprit affecting student performance: COVID-19.
Related: A closer look at the 14 lowest-performing schools in Hillsborough County
Hillsborough’s dismal statistics persist despite a succession of ambitious initiatives, all intended to create a quality education for students, regardless of income or zip code.
The latest effort — the “Transformation Network” — is the brainchild of superintendent Addison Davis, now completing his second year on the job.
The initiative is headed by fourth-generation educator Shaylia McRae. Her team is trying everything from organized community outreach to fast-food coupons to reward better student attendance.
They’ve reached out to church leaders, who said in the past they wanted to help but were sometimes turned away. Using corporate donations, McRae’s team is setting up gaming rooms on campuses. Local colleges and universities are sending students known as “Transformation Fellows” to help as tutors.
And in a school system already focused on data, the team has taken number-crunching to a new level, working to maximize every teaching moment for every student.
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Explore all your optionsShaylia McRae, chief of the Transformation Network for Hillsborough County Public Schools, during a visit to James Elementary School in November, 2021. [ AYA DIAB | Times ]
“We identify what are the standards that students are doing well,” McRae said. “And we create action plans to help to guide what we should be teaching in daily instruction. We try to ensure that students are getting what they need in order to be successful and proficient.”
For the kids, their families and the Tampa Bay community, the price of continued failure is high.
In the worst of Hillsborough’s “Transformation” schools, 60 to 85 percent of students fall below the state’s most basic standards in reading, year after year. Later in life, many will struggle to read a job application, a training manual, an election ballot, a doctor’s written instructions after surgery.
Yet every year, the school district will send them on by the hundreds to more challenging settings in middle and high school.
‘They want to learn’
District leaders are aware that the work must go beyond school walls. “If we believe that we can transform and break the cycle of underperforming schools by only focusing on our students while they are only in our schools, we are sadly mistaken,” said Davis, the superintendent.
McRae is training one employee at each school to be a family and community ambassador. At James Elementary in Tampa, the one remaining F school, principal Nicole Bennett is not shy about asking teachers to make home visits. “We have to go to them if they don’t come to us,” she said.
She addressed the stigma of the F this way: “I think it’s hard to be identified by a letter grade … because unless you’re here every day in these trenches, you don’t know what we’re doing or what’s going on or how much growth we’re even making from the year before and the year before that. ”
Now in her second year at James, Bennett has moved from establishing better behavior routines to differentiating the lessons based on individual student needs.
“Our kids want it,” she said. “They’re not just sitting there saying, wamp wamp. They want to learn. They want high structure, and they want to feel like this is a school community.”
Art teacher Christine Samad teaches children at James Elementary School how to use a horizon to illustrate a landscape. [ AYA DIAB | Times ]
Davis is celebrating the team’s early success, at least on paper: The district in 2021 had 14 D and F schools, while two years ago it had 28.
But a C doesn’t mean a school is out of trouble.
Schools often swing from the C grades that they work so hard to obtain back to a D or F — which lands them back in the state warning zone. That’s partly because the points to earn that C come largely from two categories: Gains overall, and gains made by the lowest-scoring 25 percent of students. There are only so many gains to be had, even in the highest-performing schools, so it’s hard to keep getting those points.
If not for lenient state requirements during the pandemic, more Hillsborough schools could have dropped to a D or F last year. More than half of the Transformation schools that had a C or better saw pass rates drop for English/language arts, math, or both. Nearly 5,000 students in that group tested in Level 1 for reading, the lowest of the state’s five levels.
Davis, McRae and chief academic officer Terry Connor agreed that timetables imposed by the state can stand in the way of true progress. Bringing a student, or a group of students, to the levels they should be can take years.
Yet after a school gets a D or an F grade, the state expects rapid change.
New names, same problem
Jeff Eakins, the superintendent who preceded Davis, tried in 2015 to make Hillsborough an example for all large districts by using seven schools as a learning laboratory, then expanding the successful methods to the rest.
The seven were known as “Priority” schools. To avoid confusion with the state’s designation of priority schools, he later changed the name to “Elevate.” One of the seven schools, Miles Elementary, improved enough to leave the group after the first year, but later regressed to its current D grade. Another, Sulphur Springs K-8, never moved beyond a D.
Related: How one Hillsborough principal tried to fix a D school, and hit a wall
Assistant superintendent Tricia McManus — now a superintendent in North Carolina — was charged in 2018 with rolling together all of the district and state school improvement work under the “Achievement Schools” project. Fifty schools were in that group. District leaders say McManus made progress through better recruitment and preparation of principals.
Other strategies included paying $45 million in teacher bonuses. More money came from government grants, including the federal Title I program that in a typical year delivers roughly $60 million for high-poverty schools. The district hired consultants under orders from the state. To date, those payments have exceeded $8 million.
Hillsborough County school superintendent Addison Davis speaks with district counsel Jeff Gibson during a School Board meeting in December. Davis launched the Transformation Network in another bid to improve the district’s lowest-performing schools. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ]
When Davis took over, he put McRae in charge, renamed the group the Transformation Network and cut it to include only the 28 D and F schools. Then he expanded the group again to include what are known as “fragile C” schools. The number is back up to 45.
To get a snapshot of the problem, the Times looked back at five years of data in the 14 Transformation schools that still have D grades, or in the case of James Elementary, an F.
Patterns emerged.
Some schools have had one or two principals since 2016. Others had three or four. One has had five.
A number of teachers lacked the training or skill to help children meet state standards, according to state-required improvement plans submitted by school administrators.
Some schools were so small that their numbers work against them when it comes to state grades. They had too few students to benefit from those extra points the state awards when the lowest-scoring kids make gains.
Other schools strained to serve their students because of their larger populations. At Miles Elementary, which is filled near capacity, there were not enough English language support services to meet the needs of a large population of new immigrants.
Tampa Heights Elementary is a special case. Before a fire gutted the building in 2017, the school was a well-respected magnet with a solid C, and in some years a B.
While the district rebuilt the school, students were housed at nearby Lockhart Elementary, a D school that is also on the state list. Tampa Heights earned two D’s during the transition. And last year, though back at its original location, 61 percent of its students fell below Florida standards on the state reading test.
Despite the many variables, data and interviews point to several factors, outlined below, that may be impacting Hillsborough more than other districts.
Not ready for kindergarten
More than 16,000 students enter kindergarten every year in Hillsborough County. About 4,000 go to district preschool, including the federally funded Head Start program.
What about the other 75 percent? They might be in a commercial preschool, a family day care home, or spending the day with a parent or grandparent. And the knowledge the state demands of a child in kindergarten is growing all the time.
McRae and her team addressed the preschool issue early in what she calls “a slow, systemic approach to really getting to the root causes of failure.”
In Hillsborough, 48 percent of children entering kindergarten are far enough along in their letter sounds, number recognition and other basic skills to expect success. That’s two points below the statewide average of 50 percent. But at the 14 D and F schools, those numbers drop as low as 16.5 percent at Miles Elementary and 16.9 percent at James Elementary.
“When you look community-wise in our inner city core, you don’t see commercialized day care centers,” McRae said. One solution would be to get more preschool seats in the district schools, especially those that have extra room because so many families have left to enroll in choice programs.
Eakins, the former superintendent, had hoped to oversee a major preschool expansion, ideally in the same schools where the children would continue on to kindergarten. He made progress, with enrollment climbing as high as 4,600 children.
But the number plummeted during the pandemic, and now it is back to around 4,000.
Poverty and school boundaries
A 2015 Harvard University study ranked the nation’s 100 largest counties on the basis of a child’s ability to transcend poverty. Hillsborough came in 98th.
Some educators have wondered if the problem in the schools stemmed from the unusual nature of poverty in Hillsborough, that it was more concentrated and more deeply entrenched.
But the study did not say that poverty causes schools to struggle. In fact, in one passage, it suggested inferior schools are one reason why people are poor.
Nevertheless, the 14 D and F schools have a preponderance of students described as low-income.
In drawing boundaries, school leaders seek to keep communities together. And sometimes that intention adds to economic segregation.
One example is Oak Park Elementary, which is being celebrated this year because it rose from an F to a C. It serves an East Tampa neighborhood that includes a domestic violence shelter, a drug rehabilitation center and low-rent motels. In an average Hillsborough school, 3 of every 100 students enrolled in October will be gone in February. At Oak Park, 10 will be gone.
Sulphur Springs, a community north of Tampa’s Seminole Heights neighborhood, has a poverty rate that has been measured at three times the national average, affecting 42 percent of the population and 58 percent of its children.
The community has its own school, which the district expanded from K-5 to K-8 in 2015. The plan was to work with a consortium of charities to revitalize the neighborhood.
Three principals later, Sulphur Springs is looking back at a string of D and F grades. And 58 percent of the students are Level 1 readers.
While Davis was not superintendent at the time, he says that expansion was a mistake. “In that model, you have to get pre-K through 5th grade right before you decide to expand it to a new configuration,” he said.
He also stood by a statement he made in early 2021 about the need for new school boundaries and, if necessary, closing or consolidating schools that are under-enrolled, chronically under-performing, or both.
“If we keep doing the same cut-and-paste application, or system, or body of work, and it’s not moving the needle, you’ve got to think differently,” Davis said. “We’ve got to figure out strategies to be able to put children in situations to be successful.”
Staff turnover
Adams Middle School started the school year with 13 employees who were new to the district.
One, Gary Pate, left after seven weeks teaching special education. It wasn’t for him, despite a long career teaching students with special needs. He appreciated the principal and assistant principals, he said. But he could not tolerate the disrespect shown by a disruptive group of students. In his opinion, the district did not provide enough support.
“It’s a jail, that place,” Pate said. “There’s fights every day.”
Eleven teachers who started at Giunta Middle School this school year later left the district.
High-poverty schools lose talent in spite of the bonus pay, and there is turnover in the principal ranks too. The 14 D and F schools have had 39 principals since 2016. Those on the job now have been there an average of two years.
In education circles, it is commonly understood that a principal needs between three and five years to become established.
McRae said she believes the district has a deep bench of principals, thanks to the work McManus did seven years ago in establishing a “principal pipeline” training program.
One obstacle to continuity: When a school gets a low grade, state regulators often insist that it get a new principal.
Reading: a weak spot
There is a direct connection between Hillsborough’s English/language arts test scores, which are consistently below the state average, and its disproportionately high number of low-performing schools.
For one thing, the test scores are the building blocks for the yearly grades. And reading in particular is the foundation of nearly all other learning.
In 2019, the district commissioned a literacy audit by an educational consulting firm. The report showed numerous flaws in the system.
Teaching the way the district wanted was optional rather than required. Practices differed from one classroom to the next. Digital tools were sometimes used incorrectly and excessively. Top teachers were assigned to grades three to five, while kindergarten through second grade — the most important years for foundational skills — got the less-skilled teachers.
District leaders set out to tighten teaching practices. They were relieved when, after the first pandemic year, Hillsborough’s passing rate in English/language arts dropped by only 4 percentage points. The drop was one point more than the state’s. But Hillsborough officials noted that the learning losses were far worse in other large districts.
Students at James Elementary School in Tampa work on reading words with second-grade teacher Diana Patrissi. The school uses test data to isolate skills that students must master to keep up with state standards. [ AYA DIAB | Times ]
The lack of consistency across the district can be especially significant for families who move around and transfer their children midyear.
Despite Davis’ efforts to become more consistent in reading instruction, 27 percent of Hillsborough’s student test-takers scored last year in the lowest range, Level 1. That was 2 points worse than the state average.
Davis and his chief academic officer, Connor, said they are moving as quickly as they can to bring consistency into the system, along with new products and teaching methods that put a greater emphasis on phonics in the early years.
The process becomes difficult, they said, because in addition to the disruption of COVID-19, the state is adopting new academic targets to replace the Florida Standards, which was a variation of Common Core.
“So now we have new standards, new curriculum and a pandemic, all at once,” Connor said.
Too many choices
The Times calculated the 14 schools’ “stay rates,” a term referring to the percentage of children who lived in a school’s attendance area and remained instead of opting for a magnet school, charter school or another traditional district school.
Strong schools tend to have high stay rates because their communities have confidence in them. Westchase Elementary School, for example, keeps 89 percent of its neighborhood students. Gorrie Elementary in South Tampa keeps 92 percent.
The 14 D and F schools had rates as low as 39 percent at Giunta Middle and 45 percent at Adams Middle.
In sheer numbers, 1,248 students left Giunta for these other options. There were 316 who left James, and 584 who left Robles.
When a large percentage of families go elsewhere, a school can lose parents who are likely to be involved as volunteers and children who may have the most advantages outside of school.
David Colon, a social studies teacher, worked at Adams Middle nearly a decade ago and then returned this past year.
In that time, Adams’ enrollment dropped by nearly half. But the smaller numbers did not help the school, Colon said.
He had high praise for the administrators and students. But he found the atmosphere at Adams depressing, with classrooms going unused and not enough adults in the hallways between classes.
“Children know when they’re being shortchanged,” Colon said. “I’d hear them say, ‘My friend is going to a charter school’ or ‘My friend is going to choice school.’ They’ll brag about their schools. I’ve heard the kids say, ‘My friends go to an A school and this is a D and an F school.’”
The district leaders did not deny that the options for families can sap a school of resources, including involved parents.
But, they said, they have to accept this kind of marketplace of school choices. For one thing, state leaders are encouraging the proliferation of independent charter schools, and scholarships for private schools.
“If we don’t create choice, then we won’t compete,” Davis said. That’s why he is determined to use whatever funds are available to make the Transformation Network schools competitive.
No silver bullet
It’s impossible to tell, from the data available, if teacher qualification is part of the problem.
State evaluation reports show 99 percent and sometimes 100 percent of the teachers in the lowest-graded schools are deemed “highly effective” or “effective.”
But in another set of documents, called School Improvement Reports, principals have noted teacher shortcomings: A writing teacher who cannot grade essays, a science teacher who does not know fifth-grade math, and numerous cases where teachers knew the material, but did not design effective classroom lessons.
Teachers, in the interviews, typically said classes were too big, especially in schools where children are a year or more behind in their skills; or when behavior is disruptive.
Some did not like to have coaches and specialists second-guessing them instead of rolling up their sleeves and teaching. Many agreed with union president Rob Kriete, who suggested the district turn coaching positions into teaching positions.
Chief academic officer Terry Connor. [ Hillsborough County Public Schools ]
Davis and Connor, however, said the research does not support the idea that better results come from smaller classes.
They said they have moved away from a past system of mentors and evaluators, who were sometimes seen as judgmental, and into one that employs “content specialists” who can help teachers achieve better results. What’s more, they said, the teaching coaches work with small groups of children during the second half of the school year, when state testing kicks in.
Davis said he believes the district has made advancements in a number of key areas: recruiting good teachers and principals; helping teachers master content and align it with the state standards; improving relationships with parents and communities; and using test data to give students the instruction they need, in real time.
But as much as he wanted to congratulate his team, he said, “the silver bullet doesn’t exist.”
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Education in Tampa: educational institutions: primary, secondary, higher
Tampa is one of the largest cities in the state of Florida, located in the southeastern part of the United States. Florida is known not only as a major tourist center, but also as a center of education. International students choose Florida for its high quality education and excellent living conditions. Let’s focus on the educational institutions of Tampa – the best schools and universities in the United States are located here, including the largest university in the state – University of South Florida .
Education in Tampa – advantages and prospects
- International students come to the US for quality and relevant programs, prestigious certificates and diplomas. Tampa is no exception: a high level of education and top schools are the main reason for the city’s popularity.
- Excellent financial support from the state and individuals allows schools and universities to improve their infrastructure and keep it up to date.
- The training system is characterized by a focus on practical knowledge, comprehensiveness, education of leadership qualities, and competitiveness.
- The mild climate, beautiful beaches, multicultural environment and many attractions make studying especially comfortable.
Schooling in Tampa
Tampa has public and private schools that differ in tuition fees. More often, foreign students prefer to study in private boarding schools, because boarding houses solve organizational issues: where the child will live, who will be his official representative, whether he will be able to adapt to the new education system and whether he will receive high-quality training. Private schools in Tampa create comfortable conditions for foreigners: the guys get enough attention from teachers, study in small classes and live on school grounds.
Such conditions help schoolchildren to adapt faster, which effectively affects academic performance. Children in America spend one year more at school than Russian children and, if desired, go through an in-depth Advanced Placement program. AP, or Advanced Placement, is a course for high school students of increased complexity, where children study specialized subjects at the first year of the university and receive advantages when entering universities.
Best Tampa Boarding Schools
Tampa is home to some of the best boarding schools in the United States with unique opportunities, such as:
- Academy IMG Private School offers a unique program that combines curriculum with professional tennis and golf training. World-class athletes, US champions and Olympic participants have graduated from the academy. Most of the students are foreigners.
- Another unique educational institution – Admiral Farragut Academy . This is one of two specialized schools in the United States with in-depth training in naval affairs. The educational institution has many author’s courses in scuba diving, oceanology, aviation and navigation. Here you will find STEM programs, AP, cadet class. The school accepts boys and girls over 15 years of age.
- After grade 11, students enter a pre-university preparatory course, such as the University Pathway at INTO University of South Florida.
Higher education in Tampa
The American system of higher education has a number of differences from the Russian one. Students independently draw up a study plan, choose disciplines and decide when to take exams. A lot of time is devoted to self-study of subjects. Teachers are waiting for their own opinion and active position. American law allows students to earn extra money, but not more than 20 hours a week.
Students who are in the US on an F-1 visa are eligible for an internship in their field of study. Often, young specialists look for a permanent job during their internship in order to stay in the country. At the universities of Tampa, you will find a number of scholarship programs and grants from universities, commercial and non-profit companies (Fullbright, Global Ugrad, Florida International University and others). Thanks to good funding, Tampa universities have a developed infrastructure: laboratories, technically equipped classrooms, swimming pools, sports grounds.
Tampa’s Leading Universities
The city is home to the state’s largest universities:
- INTO University of South Florida is the 44th largest public university in the United States. You can get bachelor’s and master’s degrees here in various fields: management, sociology, art, natural sciences, business, medicine and engineering.
- Florida Polytechnic University is one of 12 emerging STEM universities in the state.
- The University of Tampa is a prestigious university with an international reputation in medicine, business, social sciences, literature and the arts.
List of schools in the Hillsboro County, Florida
This is a list of schools in the Kilsboro district, Florida
Content
- 1 State secondary schools
- 2 State secondary schools
- 3 State primary schools
- 4
- 5 Private schools
- 6 Historical schools
- 7 Collections and universities
- 7.1 Universities
- 7.2 Colleges
- 8 Recommendations
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- Alonso High School (Raven) (IB)
- Armwood High School (hawk)
- Blake High School (Yellowjacket)
- Bloomingdale High School (Bull)
- Bowers/Whitley Career Center (Viking)
- Brandon High School (Eagle)
- Chamberlain High School (Main)
- D. W. Waters Career Center (11-12) (Cheetah) )
- Durant High School (Puma)
- East Bay High School (Indian)
- Liberty High School (Patriot)
- Gaither High School (Cowboy)
- Hillsborough High School (Terrier) (IB)
- King High School Day (Lion) (IB)
- Lennard High School (Longhorn)
- Summer High School (Falcon)
- Middleton High School (Tiger)
- Newsom High School (Wolf)
- 90 (Panther)
- Plant City High School (Raider)
- Riverview High School (Shark)
- Robinson High School (Knight) (IB)
- Sickles High School Daytime (Griffin)
- Simmons Career Center (11- 12)
- South District Career Center (11-12) (Bobcat)
- Spoto High School (Spartan)
- Steinbrenner High School (Warrior)
- Strawberry Crest High School, Daytime (Charger) (IB)
- Sumner High School (sea stingray)
- Tampa Bay Technical High School (Titanium)
- Wharton High School Daytime (Wildcat)
Jefferson High School school (Dragon)
Public High Schools
Note: Magnet schools marked with *
Preparatory Academic Academy of National Academy Tampa Horizon School
(Tampa Campus)
90 , Brandon (1-6)
Hillsborough, Seffner
Academy 90 Libertas [7] (K-8)
Riverview,
Historical Schools
- Bledsoe Historical School – closed 1903, Factory City
- Bloomingdale Normal Institute – Normal School, 1879-1891. [9]
- Bloomingdale Historic School – Closed 1920, Valrico, now Bloomingdale area, Riverview, Brandon, Newsom and Durant. [10]
- Turkey Creek Historic High School – 1873-1971, Plant City [11]
- Pinecrest Historic High School – Lithia, now Newsom and Durant [12]
- Historical school PLAZANT-GROUV-Closed in 1903, Plant City
Colleges and Universities
Universities
- Argosi
- University
- Nova Nova
- Youth Youth South – satellite campus in Tampa
- Stetson University – satellite campus in Tampa [13]
- Stetson University College of Law
- Strayer University
- Law School of Thomas M. Kuli – Satellite campus of the University of Western Michigan [14]
- University of Troy
- South Florida University
- Templar
- Tampa Campus *
9001
9ATHERS
- Jersey College – School of Nursing [1]
Recommendations
- 9 Brandon Tabernacle Bible College and Seminary
Resources
- http://www. sdhc.k12.fl.us/schools/
- /www.sdhc.k12.fl.us/charter/charterschools.asp
- http://www.homes101.net/florida-schools/hillsborough-county-school-district-d5837/
- http://www. privateschoolreview.com/county_high_schools/stateid/FL/county/12057
- http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/fl/private/6800
- https://web.archive.org/web/200
092713/http://www.sdhc.k12.fl.us/charter/pdf/charterschools.pdf
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For a Korean citizen, his whole future life depends on a good education, therefore, education here is treated very responsibly and thoughtfully. The education system in South Korea is organized very comfortably, so many foreigners also want to study in this country.
The Korean education system is based on the following principles
Primary education and the first three years of high school are compulsory in the country. The school is designed for 12 grades, the minimum is to complete 9.
Little Koreans begin to prepare for school in kindergarten at the age of 3-6. Children of 6 years old are allowed to primary education, slight age deviations are possible.
Primary school – 1-6 grades, 6-12 year olds study here. All subjects are taught by one teacher. The emphasis is on native traditions and culture, on Korean and English, on mathematics, and on social sciences.
Secondary school – 7-9 grades, teenagers aged 13-15 study. Different teachers teach history, ethics, home economics, computer literacy, physical education and other subjects in addition to the subjects that were in elementary school.
If the family decides to continue their studies, the student moves to an advanced level of secondary school, these are grades 10-12. Here they study such specializations as technical and natural sciences, in-depth foreign language, art history and others. They leave school in Korea at the age of 18.
The academic year consists of two semesters:
• March 1 – mid-July;
• late August – mid February.
When there is no study, the children are on vacation.
Distinctions of education in Korea
This amazing country is full of peculiarities in various spheres of life, and the sphere of education has not done without them.
The state closely takes care of its young citizens, this begins even with preschool education. In particular, there are gardens where children are admitted at the age of three days, this is a unique phenomenon.
In kindergartens, kids are comprehensively developed, while in order to improve health, they focus on physical education, and for the development of creative abilities – on learning songs.
In Korea, it is customary to change the composition of teachers frequently so that the habit of working in one place does not develop, and also to ensure constant rotation in order to homogenize the education system. So in Korea, the chances of all children to enter a university are equalized, so that everyone has both strong and average teachers.
Secondary and higher schools can be either public or private. Primary schools are public only.
Transfer exams from level to level are not difficult, for most students they are easily overcome.
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Tampa Bay Technical High School
Tampa Bay Technical High School ( TBT ) is a public comprehensive magnet high school for grades 9-12 in Florida, United States. It was founded in 1969 as Tampa Bay. Vocational School. The school mascot is a Titan.
Students apply to one of three programs: Tampa Bay Technical High School, Academy of Architecture and Environmental Design, or Academy of Health Professions. The school campus resembles a community college campus with laboratory facilities for technology programs. Transportation is provided by Hillsborough County Public Schools through the bus system.
Content
- 1 Demography
- 2 Academics
- 2.1 Technological programs
- 2.2 Health Academy
- 2.3 Academy of Architecture
- 6 external link
3.1 5 References
Demographics
Tampa Bay Tech HS is 49% Black, 26% Hispanic, 13% White, 5% Asian, 5% Multiracial, and 2% Other. [3]
Academics
In 2015-2016 Tampa Bay Tech had a 95% graduation rate and 75% of students were enrolled in Advanced Placement courses, with 41% passing. [4] Dual enrollment courses are available through Hillsborough Community College. [5]
The school offers the following programs:
Technology programs
- Car body repair
- Car repair
- Air conditioning (HVAC)
Academy of Architecture
The Academy of Architecture has classes in two separate rooms, each of which is a complete laboratory. Students receive fundamental skills in the field of architecture and practice. computer-aided design systems and manual drawing. Students compete in competitions throughout the year, including local drawing and design competitions at the Strawberry Festival, national drawing and design competitions with Skills USA, and the West Point Bridge Design Competition.
Club Involvement
The school has many clubs, and some nationwide clubs have chapters at Tampa Bay Tech. Clubs are divided into Career, Service, Interest and Honor Clubs.
Career Clubs
- HOSA (Medical Students of America)
- National FFA (formerly known as Future Farmers of America)
- FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America)
- FSPA (Florida Scholastic Press Association)
- FCCLA
- CAA (Academy of Commercial Arts)
Notable People
- Paul Ray Smith – Iraq War Hero and Medal of Honor recipient [6]
- National Football League player retired [6] 7]
- Brian Blair is a professional wrestler and local politician. [8]
- Kevin Hobbs – former NFL player [9]
- Maritza Correia – swimmer, 2004 Olympic silver medalist [10]
- Michelle Phan – makeup artist [11]
- Deon Cain – Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and member of the 2016 Clemson Tigers football team championship team in the 10th round of the June 1997 MLB Draft. Played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers, followed by a brief NFL appearance with the Miami Dolphins, St. Louis Rams and New York Giants. [12] 9 “KJ Harris”, Wikipedia , 2019-01-06, retrieved 2019-04-30
- School website
- primary (grades 1-5) – children study basic compulsory subjects, play sports and creative work.
- secondary : Middle School (grades 6-8) or Junior High School (7-9classes) – in addition to compulsory subjects, elective disciplines appear.
- senior classes : High School (9-12) or Senior High School (11-12) – reduction in the number of compulsory subjects, maximum freedom in the choice of disciplines studied. For the last 2 years, gifted students can study Advanced Placement programs. At the end of High School, an American student will have to take the SAT exam (Scholastic Aptitude Test).
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Education in the USA
The US education system is characterized by flexibility and democracy: with a high variety of programs, students – both schoolchildren and students – have the opportunity to independently choose the disciplines they study, as well as change their specialization. Even at the university, you can move from one faculty to another, study additional subjects and create your own educational program.
Early childhood education in the US
Early childhood education in the United States begins almost from the cradle. In nursery or kindergarten children can be sent from the age of 6 months. There he can be from six in the morning to six in the evening. Unlike Russian kindergartens, a child can be taken to kindergarten after school, since by law, until the age of 12, he cannot be at home alone. All kindergartens in America are paid, the average monthly fee is about $1,200.
For children from three to five years old, “preparatory groups” operate at schools. At this stage, much attention will be paid to general development, socialization, as well as literature, since the preschool education system sets itself the task of teaching the child reading skills in the first place.
However, kindergarten and pre-school classes are still an optional step. Compulsory education in America begins at school and lasts 12 years.
US school system
Unlike many countries, there is no single educational plan in America: in general, the plan forms the board of education under the state administration, more precisely determines the board of a particular school.
School education in the USA is divided into three stages:
Depending on the state, children start school between the ages of five and eight. As a rule, each of the stages of the American school has its own building and is a completely separate educational institution.
The academic year in an American school is divided into two semesters. The duration of training sessions is 5-6 hours a day with a lunch break. Afternoon time is most often devoted to sports, clubs and other community service, which are a mandatory component of American school education. Grades are given in alphabetical form: A, B, C, D, F will be equivalent to Russian grades from five to two.
Unlike the US higher education system, which is the world leader, the school sector is valued contraversively. On the one hand, the set of compulsory subjects is small: among them are mathematics, English, science, history, art, physical education.
On the other hand, students have a huge choice of specialized classes : from theater to ecology. This list also includes foreign languages. Many schools offer 90,003 advanced programs to high school students (Advanced Placement): the most motivated and capable students can additionally study a particular subject at the university level. Thus, the US school system is good for those who want to learn, but is not aimed at the general increase in education in the country.
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Public and private schools in the USA
According to the type of funding, schools in the USA are divided into public (public schools) and private (private schools). The level of teaching in the state varies greatly not only from state to state, but even within the same city. The fact is that funding for public schools comes from the district budget (most often from property taxes). As a result, schools in “expensive” areas are well endowed and, as a result, well-equipped, with a strong teaching staff and overall high academic performance. Since, according to US law, a child can only attend the school to which he belongs in the place of residence, such a system leads to an increase in the value of real estate in areas with “strong” schools. Taxes increase, the school receives even more funding. The situation is reversed in “cheap” areas: lack of funding leads to the fact that schools remain weak.
Private schools are financially independent organizations that receive subsidies from sponsors and also charge tuition fees. A high level of funding helps to maintain a high level of academic achievement: excellent facilities, strong teaching staff and small class sizes make these institutions the “cradles” of future diplomats, politicians and top managers. The education received here opens the door to most of the top universities in the world. It is worth saying that the number of US citizens in private schools is often less than 50%: they are of greater interest to foreign students. This is partly due to the country’s immigration laws: a foreigner can study in a public school only if the family moves to America and has a residence permit, or if the student participates in a one-year exchange program.
Significant differences between elite private schools and “average” public schools also add to the general heterogeneity in America’s secondary education.
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Higher education in the US
The US higher education system includes colleges and universities – private and public. According to international rankings, most of them are among the best educational institutions in the world. It is worth replacing that, unlike the European education system, in America there is no qualitative difference between a college and a university. For example, even Harvard, which ranked first in 2016, is actually divided into schools, colleges and institutes. The only difference is that colleges offer only undergraduate programs, while universities and institutes provide an opportunity to engage in scientific research and continue an academic career in master’s (1-2 years), postgraduate (3 to 6 years) and research after defending a doctoral dissertation . If the student’s specialization is related to medicine, legal or theological education, the training scheme is somewhat different: upon completion of the bachelor’s program, the student can enter a higher professional school. Similar educational institutions exist at large universities, the duration of study in them is 3 years.
Technical institutes and community colleges are classified as vocational education (similar to Russian vocational schools), but they can serve as the first stage of higher education if, after studying in them, a student is transferred to a university for a bachelor’s degree program. As a rule, the transfer is carried out on the 2nd or 3rd course.
The US higher education system is even more free than schools. Most universities do not accept students to a specific faculty, but simply to the university. However, applicants most often choose the university that is strongest in the area they plan to study. For example, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is famous for its developments in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, but if plans have changed, you can study history, theater, and literature there. This is due to the fact that during the first two years a student can take almost any course offered within the walls of an educational institution. The only requirement is a sufficient number of earned “credits” ( credits ), which the student receives for successfully mastered disciplines. In the 3rd year, you need to decide on your specialization and choose major – the main area of \u200b\u200bprofessional interests. It is on this that the diploma will be obtained. However, due to the fact that the student is free to form his own curriculum, in the United States it is possible to obtain the rarest specialties at the intersection of various professions.
Democracy in the formation of the curriculum, however, implies a fairly disciplined attitude to learning: this includes attending classes, and timely delivery of all control and research papers. Special attention is paid to the latter in the US higher education system: in addition to lectures and seminars familiar to Russians, students of American universities have to spend a lot of time on research or projects. Often they are performed not individually, but by a group of students: in the USA they are sure that training can be built not only according to the “teacher-to-student” scheme, but also “from student to student”. Also, such work develops the ability to work in a team, which is highly valued not only in the educational environment, but also subsequently by employers.
Last but not least, the factor that has made the American system of higher education so revered throughout the world is financial and material support. It allows not only to maintain the excellent equipment of universities, but also to maintain a staff of really strong teachers, who often come to the United States from other countries.
All together – a strong academic background, the ability to choose disciplines based on their own professional plans, the focus of education on real sectors of the economy – allows the system of higher education in the United States to remain the strongest in the world.
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The education system in America is heterogeneous. US primary and secondary public schools do not always inspire confidence. They offer a set of basic subjects that a gifted student is likely to find insufficient. Parents who want their children to have successful careers prefer to send them to private schools. However, American universities and colleges, both private and public, top the world rankings year after year. They combine the democratic nature of the educational process and a high level of education, so a purposeful student can be sure that he will get exactly what he needs from his studies.
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The best schools in Finland: part 1 :: UNIF.pro
The best schools in Finland: part 1 :: UNIF.pro
November 7, 2018
There are two different lyceum/gymnasium rankings in Finland. The first of them is formed on the basis of the average score of the results of compulsory subjects passed in state exams. When compiling the second, the grades of the basic education certificate are compared with the results of the final exams of the exams of classes where instruction is conducted in Finnish.
Salla School’s international coordinator Sirkka Takkunen, with whom we spoke the other day, considers it more fair, so in the first part of the selection of the best schools in Finland we will talk about it.
In the spring of 2018, the ranking was topped by Savukoski School in Lapland. Savukoski is the most sparsely populated municipality in the country. Only 1200 people live here. How did a school in the outback bypass the capital’s lyceums and why are the top positions in the top more and more often given to small educational institutions? Directors and students shared their opinions.
Rector Savukoski Jukka Taipale attributes the success of his students to the special atmosphere in the team. Here they listen to the students, and do not tell them what to do.
– I think this is our strength. Everyone in the villages knows each other very well.
– Final exams are only once in a lifetime, so I wanted to invest my time in them. You can go far if you repeat the main questions on subjects in advance. The result will be if you prepare on time, – Savukoski graduate Onni Paananen is convinced. He came second in the exam.
– What is good in Finnish schools, – continues the rector of Taipale, is their level of teaching: it is equally high throughout the country. Ultimately, your academic success is up to you, not where you went to school.
Finnish Christian Secondary School came second. Applicant Mikael Takama is sure that the reason is precisely the location of the educational institution. The desire to show that even in small towns they are capable of great achievements, makes students try harder.
– We set ourselves a goal and went towards it, but in many respects this is the merit of our teachers, who additionally studied with us. It’s important that teachers know the students and genuinely care about their success, Takamaa says.
Rector for Academic Affairs Leif Hongisto praised the students for the right attitude.
– If the children themselves did not have the enthusiasm and desire to absorb knowledge, the teacher could at least stand over them with a stick – zero sense.
Third place shared by Swedish Cathedral School (Katedralskola) in Turkku and Topelius Gymnasium in Uusikaarlepyu. Both were in the top ten last year as well. Director of Katedralskola Marianna Pärnanen believes that the most important thing is that teachers and students love the school.
– There are so many people in society and in the world that the general welfare should be a priority. The goal of the school is to produce worthy people who will succeed in society.
According to Marianna, this is more valuable than high places and awards.
Ranking of the best schools in Finland by region:
Southwest Finland:
- Paltamo Secondary School, Paltamo
- Kuhmo School, Kuhmo
- Vaala Secondary School, Vaala
- Suomussalmi Secondary School, Suomussalmi
- Kajaani High School, Kajaani
- Sotkamo High School, Sotkamo
- Puolanki High School, Puolanka
- School Tokholammi, Tokholami
- A secondary school is to ROOD, SHOW
- Swedish gymnasium Karlebyu, Kokkola
- Finnish secondary school of cockle, Kokkola
- Music school, Caustinen
- Secondary school of winds
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- Lyceum Iitti, Iitti
- Secondary school of Karhuli, Kotka
- Hamina school, hamina
- Secondary school of Valcell, Coovola
- Lyceum Elimi, Cuvola
- Secondary school of Kuusankoski, Coovol
- Kouvola
- Virolahti Secondary School, Virolahti
- Savukoski Secondary School, Savukoski
- Posio School, Posio
- Pello School, Pello
- Yuyuki High School, Yuyuka
- Kontiolahti High School, Kontiolahti
- Pyhäsel School, Joensuu
- Outokumpu High School, Outokumpu
- Nurmes High School, Nurmes
- Oulu High School, Oulu
- Kuusamo High School, Kuusamo
- Haukipudas High School, Oulu
- Reisjärvi High School, Reisjärvi
- Muhosa High School, Muhos9
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- Haapavesi High School, Haapavesi
- Siikalatva High School, Siikalatva
- Uleborg Swedish Private School, Oulu
- Pateniemi High School, Oulu
- Secondary School Sonkairvi, Sonkairvi
- Secondary school of Leppyavirta, Leppyavirta
- Secondary school of Lapinlahti, Lapinlahti
- Lyceum Jisalmi, Jisalmi
- Secondary school of Sunoneenies, SUNENIOOKY
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- Art School, Kuopio
- Vieremä School, Vieremä
- Vesanto Secondary School, Vesanto
- Varkaus Secondary School, Varkaus
- Secondary school of TIIRISMAA, lachti
- Secondary school of TOMOPOPO, Soil
- Secondary school of lakhti, lachti
- School Vyaakuyu, Asikkala
- Cannaxi Lyceum, lakhti
- Padasio, Medicine Padasio.
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Central Pohyanmaa
Central Finland
Lapland
North
North Savo
Päjat-Häme
Lyceum Laachti, Lahti