Skip to content
ZipNumbers

Hillsborough County · Florida

Tampa, FL public schools

Enrollment, school count, staffing and per-pupil spending for Hillsborough — federal education data, not a star rating.

Yellow public school bus parked at dusk, illustrating local school district data

Quick answer

Hillsborough is the primary public district for Tampa, FL. It enrolls 224,538 students in 309 schools with 12,405 full-time-equivalent teachers, and spends $11,103 per pupil, 36% below the $17,320 median across the metros covered here.

Students enrolled
224,538NCES Common Core of Data, 2021-22
Schools in the district
309Operating school count
Students per teacher
18.1Enrollment ÷ FTE teachers, not class size
Spending per pupil
$11,103Total current expenditure, FY2020

Who pays for schools in Tampa

Where the district's money comes from, FY2020.

Local revenue
39.1%
$1,003,023,000
State revenue
46.4%
$1,190,659,000
Federal revenue
14.4%
$370,070,000

Local revenue is mostly property tax, which is why the Tampa property tax rate and school funding move together. Of every dollar spent, about 55 cents reaches instruction — teacher salaries, benefits and classroom materials — with the rest covering transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Reading the Tampa numbers

What the 2021-22 NCES and FY2020 Census finance numbers say about this district.

This is a low-spending district: $11,103 per pupil, 36% under the $17,320 median and near the bottom of the metros tracked here. Instruction takes 55 cents of each dollar — $6,130 per student — with the remainder on transport, buildings, food service and administration.

Funding is split roughly evenly — 39.1% local, 46.4% state — so both the local tax base and the FL aid formula matter to what this district can spend. Federal aid contributes 14.4%, near the typical share for a large urban district.

224,538 students across 309 schools averages 727 students per building, and the district is larger than the typical district covered here (44,998 students). Staffing is thin relative to peers: 18.1 students per FTE teacher against a 15.2 median, 2.9 students more per teacher.

What this data covers

Read this before comparing districts.

Hillsborough is a large city district; figures are the district total (LEAID 1200870) and individual schools inside it vary widely. Independently authorised charter schools, private schools and regional vocational programs are counted separately by NCES and are not in these totals. Enrollment is the 2021-22 NCES collection; dollars are the FY2020 Census F-33 survey, the latest complete national release. The two years differ, so per-pupil spending is a stable indicator rather than a live budget line.

Other Tampa datasets on this site.

Statewide: Florida cities · Florida ZIP codes · Florida sales tax · Florida counties

Source: NCES Common Core of Data + Census F-33, via Urban Institute Education Data · rates as published for 2021-22 / FY2020

NCES LEAID 1200870. Finance figures are Census Annual Survey of School System Finances (F-33) totals as redistributed by the Urban Institute Education Data API.