September 2008
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This issue’s Planning Commission Snapshots focuses on educational trends in Hillsborough County. Our students will be attending approximately 231 schools this year. Before this school year concludes, the School District of Hillsborough County will spend more than $1.8 Billion to operate these schools. But who are these students and where is the enrollment concentrated? What is the overall educational background of Hillsborough County? This issue examines those questions, so read on! (Click on charts to make them larger.)
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The number of county residents (25 years and over) who are high school graduates had a slight increase from 2000-06. Yet, across all categories, the educational trend within the county has reflected a shift towards more education. High school graduates and holders of Associates or Bachelors degrees all showed an increase of 2%.
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The school district's enrollment for the previous year (2007-08) was 186,325 students. However, there has been only a negligible increase from last year's enrollment to this year. Enrollment among elementary students has seen a modest gain whereas enrollment among middle and high school students has seen modest decreases.
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A total of 15,990 professional employees were engaged in classroom instruction within the County during the 2007-08 school year, an increase of 6.6% from the previous year. The minimum salary for teacher with a Bachelor's Degree was $37,014. This is an increase of 5.7% from the previous year.
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Black (non-Hispanic) Native American and Asian/Pacific Islander students accounted for 25.3% of Hillsborough County's student population during the 2007-08 school year.
White (non-Hispanic) students accounted for the largest racial group of the county's student population in the Fall of 2007 (41.9%) Hispanic students accounted for 27.5% of the student population.
(Note: Hispanic refers to an individual of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban or other Spanish culture of origin and does not reflect skin color.)
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The annual graduation rate for high school students has improved in Hillsborough County since the 2002-03 school year. The high school graduation rate rose from 75.8% in 2003 to 79.1% in 2007. Meanwhile, the dropout rate for Florida was 3.3%, which surpassed that rate of Hillsborough County 1.6%.
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According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), an average family will spend more than $102.55 on core school supplies such as notebooks, folders, pencils, backpacks and lunch boxes in 2008, up 4.2% from 2007 ($98.44).
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The percentage of students who achieved high grades in Reading, Math and Science for the 2007-08 school year were higher than those reported for the 2006-07 school year. The School District earned an overall grade of B based on points accrued in Florida's school district grading scale.
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A total of 231 schools and centers served Hillsborough County's school population during the 2006-07 school year. Students in Kindergarten through Fifth Grade occupied a greater share of the number of schools.
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A total of 2,056 families participated in the Hillsborough County home education program in the 2007-08 school year. The total home education student enrollment during this time frame was 3,230 students. This reflected a decrease of 107 students from the previous year. An annual average of 3,209 students (K-12) were home-schooled in Hillsborough County from 2004-08.
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The number of students in enrolled in Charter Schools reached 4,345 during the 2007-08 school year. This is an increase of 23.6% from the previous year. However, Charter School enrollment accounts for only 2.3% of the School District's total enrollment for the 2007-08 school year.
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Twenty-seven Charter Schools operated in Hillsborough County during the 2007-08 school year serving more than 4000 students. The number of Charter Schools increased by 68.8% from 16 schools in the 2002-03 school year to 27 schools in the 2007-08 school year.
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