# WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120087003185`
- **School name**: WHARTON HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: TAMPA, FL 33647
- **Address**: 20150 BRUCE B DOWNS BLVD
- **District**: HILLSBOROUGH (LEAID `1200870`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 28.15887, -82.35442
- **Phone**: (813)631-4710
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7153071 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Wharton_High_School
- **Founded**: 1997

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,130
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 89
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 40.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: C

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 82.0%
- **2021**: 91.0% (cohort of 525)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 723

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 68.3% (1,437 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.2% (49 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 28.0% (613 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.7%
- **Black/African American**: 5.4%
- **Asian**: 31.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 4.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 44.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.1% — 286 students
- **English Learners**: 6.7% — 147 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 185 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 37 students
- **Autism**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,439
- **Federal share**: $1,294
- **State + local share**: $7,144
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,612,026
- **Federal share**: 16.1%
- **State share**: 40.7%
- **Local share**: 43.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,180,924

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $120,452
- **Poverty rate**: 5.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 66.1%
- **Unemployment**: 5.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,822
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.3 miles (ARKLA TERRA PROPERTY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.42 miles (WIREGRASS RANCH PARK SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF TAMPA WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.66137 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0.23% (this school: 1.05%)
- **SAND PINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.05%)
- **HUNTER'S GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0.37% (this school: 1.05%)
- **PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.05%)
- **BENITO MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 0.98% (this school: 1.05%)

### ela proficiency
- **TURNER-BARTELS K-8 SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 64% (this school: 49%)
- **CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 49%)
- **SAND PINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 49%)
- **HUNTER'S GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 75% (this school: 49%)
- **PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 49%)

### graduation rate
- **FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 91% (this school: 82%)
- **WIREGRASS RANCH HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 96% (this school: 82%)
- **WESLEY CHAPEL HIGH SCHOOL** — 7.2 mi away, 98% (this school: 82%)
- **DR KIRAN C PATEL HIGH SCHOOL** — 7.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 82%)
- **CYPRESS CREEK HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.6 mi away, 99% (this school: 82%)

### math proficiency
- **TURNER-BARTELS K-8 SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 67% (this school: 37%)
- **CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 83% (this school: 37%)
- **SAND PINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 67% (this school: 37%)
- **HUNTER'S GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 75% (this school: 37%)
- **PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 84% (this school: 37%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wharton-high-school-tampa
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wharton-high-school-tampa/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wharton-high-school-tampa/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wharton-high-school-tampa/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wharton-high-school-tampa/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wharton-high-school-tampa/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wharton-high-school-tampa/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wharton-high-school-tampa/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wharton-high-school-tampa/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wharton-high-school-tampa/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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