Info on Hillsborough County School District
If you are going to live in Hillsborough County and intend to send your children to a public school, then they will attend a Hillsborough County School District run school. Hillsborough County School District encompasses all of Hillsborough County. In the Hillsborough County School District there are 209 schools grades K-12 ( 136 Elem., 42 Mid., 2 K-8, 25 High and 4 Career Centers) and 60 additional centers (Charter, Early Child, ESE, etc). They offer education for students with Early Childhood through Adult and have a Schools of Choice (charter and magnet) program. Tinker Elementry School (K-5) on MacDill AFB belongs to the Hillsborough Country School District. If you work on MacDill AFB, you can have your child attend Tinker. The Student Handbook will provide all the information that a new family would need to know about the School District as well as phone numbers in case you have any questions. Incoming students may require immunizations and will require previous school transcripts. You can determine your child’s school location by putting in your new address. The starting date for all schools for the 2008-2009 school year is 18 Aug 08. For 2008, Tampa Bay Tech was named of the top 500 high schools in the United States by the U.S News and World Report. Hillsborough County Public Schools was the number one school district in the state of Florida in 2007 for the total participation numbers in the Duke University Talent Identification Program for both the 4th/5th grade and 7th grade Talent Searches.
