# GAITHER HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120087002437`
- **School name**: GAITHER HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: TAMPA, FL 33618
- **Address**: 16200 N DALE MABRY HWY
- **District**: HILLSBOROUGH (LEAID `1200870`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 28.10034, -82.50350
- **Phone**: (813)975-7340
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5517387 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaither_High_School
- **Founded**: 1984

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,040
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 85
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 92.0%
- **2021**: 92.0% (cohort of 486)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 635

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 40.3% (804 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (30 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 26.3% (547 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 47.1%
- **Black/African American**: 3.4%
- **Asian**: 9.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 35.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 41.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 286 students
- **English Learners**: 9.3% — 194 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 178 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,925
- **Federal share**: $1,356
- **State + local share**: $7,568
### 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**: $54,232
- **Poverty rate**: 16.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,651
- **Foreign-born residents**: 27.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.2 miles (SOUTHERN SOLVENTS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.90 miles (12TH STREET SEGMENTS B C)

### 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**: 7.42896 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CLAYWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.01%)
- **DOROTHY THOMAS CENTER** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.01%)
- **HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.01%)
- **SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.01%)
- **NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.01%)

### ela proficiency
- **CLAYWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 60%)
- **SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 76% (this school: 60%)
- **NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 60%)
- **SUNLAKE ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCES** — 3.0 mi away, 80% (this school: 60%)
- **LEARNING GATE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 75% (this school: 60%)

### graduation rate
- **STEINBRENNER HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.4 mi away, 98% (this school: 92%)
- **BROOKS DEBARTOLO COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.6 mi away, 100% (this school: 92%)
- **SPORTS LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT ACADEMY (TAMPA)** — 4.7 mi away, 94% (this school: 92%)
- **SICKLES HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.9 mi away, 97% (this school: 92%)
- **LETO HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 96% (this school: 92%)

### math proficiency
- **CLAYWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 77% (this school: 59%)
- **HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 71% (this school: 59%)
- **SCHWARZKOPF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 86% (this school: 59%)
- **NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 85% (this school: 59%)
- **SUNLAKE ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCES** — 3.0 mi away, 78% (this school: 59%)

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