Hillsborough High School (Tampa, Florida)

Hillsborough High School is a public high school located at 5000 N. Central Ave, in the heart of the historic Seminole Heights neighborhood, in Tampa, Florida. Hillsborough High is the oldest public high school in Hillsborough County, Florida.

Hillsborough High School

27°59′29″N 82°27′21″W / 27.991409°N 82.4559278°W / 27.991409; -82.4559278

Public, high school

Latin: Possunt quia posse videntur
(They can because they think they can)

1882 (1882)
1885: first graduating class
1928 (1928) (Present campus)

Hillsborough County Public Schools

Kevin Gordon ^[1]

89.00 (FTE)^[2]

9–12

1,891 (2022–23)^[2]

21.25^[2]

Urban^[2]

Red
Black^[3]

Terrier

The Red & Black^[4]

The Hilsborean^[4]

hillsborough.mysdhc.org

1928

Francis Kennard

Gothic Revival

Seminole Heights
Residential District (ID93000751^[5])

August 5, 1993

Hillsborough High is one of five Hillsborough county public high schools with an International Baccalaureate program.

James L. Orr 1915

1920–1921

Ray Parmely

Henry Freeman 1922

1923

George B. Sparkman, Jr.

W. E. Snipes 1924

1925

Herb Covington

1926

Nash Higgins

Willard Johnson 1927–1936

Walter Burrell 1937–1938

1939–1941

Spurgeon Cherry

J. Crockett Farnell 1942–1948

Ty Smith 1949–1951

Bill Justice 1952

Bill Graeber 1953–1955

Hal Griffin 1956–1960

Bernie Wilson 1961–1967

Billy Turner 1968–1972; 1976–1978

Al Barnes 1973–1975

Dan Sikes 1979–1983

Dick O'Brien 1984–1992

Earl Garcia 1993–present

Bland, Jennifer A. and Katrina R. Woodworth. "." Center for Educational Policy, SRI International. 2009. – Discusses the IB program at Hillsborough

Hillsborough High School (Tampa, Florida)