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Blake High School
1701 North Boulevard, Tampa, FL, 33607-3703 -  Map
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School Overview:
Definition of Terms Blake High School
School Level High school
School Type Magnet School
Grades Offered Grades 9 - 12
County Hillsborough County, FL
Students & Faculty
Total Students 1922 students
% Male / % Female 41%  /  59%
Total Classroom Teachers 49 teachers
Students by Grade
Grade 9 - 641 students
Grade 10 - 502 students
Grade 11 - 371 students
Grade 12 - 408 students
This School ( FL ) School Average
Teacher : Student Ratio 1:39 1:16
Students by Ethnicity
This School ( FL ) School Average
% American Indian n/a n/a
% Asian 1% 2%
% Hispanic 17% 22%
% Black 54% 28%
% White 28% 47%
Additional Student Information
This School ( FL ) School Average
% Eligible for Free Lunch 42% 42%
% Eligible for Reduced Lunch 8% 9%
% Migrant Students Enrolled n/a n/a
School Performance:
( FL ) Statewide Testing Performance
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School District:
School District Name Hillsborough County School District
This School's Agency ( FL ) District Average
Number of Schools Managed 261 20
Number of Students Managed 193,379 students 12,279 students
District Total Revenue $1,590,138,000 $110,828,000
District Expenditure $1,653,812,000 $112,427,000
District Revenue / Student $8,223 $7,795
District Expenditure / Student $8,552 $7,471
District Graduation Rates 87% 81%
School Notes:
  • Blake Senior High School is a high school in Tampa, Florida, USA that was first opened in September of 1956 in honor of Howard W. Blake, a prominent alumni of Florida A&M, who strongly believed in the importance of educating young people.
  • Blake was originally open to only African-American students in the Tampa area as one of the two black schools during segregation in Tampa, the other being its current rival school Middleton High School. After Tampa integrated the schools, Blake was shut down until 1997. Upon re-opening in 1997, the school added a magnet program for the visual, communication and performing arts. The magnet program has continued to make headlines and win countless awards within each of its departments over the years.
  • Blake also boasts a strong academic curriculum, featuring over 15 Advanced Placement programs in which nearly all of the classes score higher on their AP tests than the National average. Blake has a reputation of being a somewhat dangerous school, such as in the 2005-2006 school year when a knife was rumored to be on campus and also, later in the same school year, a riot broke out off campus before school, gang related. Nine student were arrested and expelled.
  • Blake's current principal is Ms. Jaqueline Haynes. It is well know for its Musical Theater, Acting, Drama, Journalism, Creative Writing, Art, Voice, Costume Design, Music (Band, Chorus, Orchestra) and Dance departments.
  • Mission: The mission of Howard W. Blake High School is to guide all students to achieve their full potential in academics and the arts within an interactive environment. Blake High School will partner with students to attain the highest level achievement in the academics and the arts.
  • Liberal Arts versus Performing Arts: The Magnet Program was designed to bring more students from the suburban areas in Tampa into the inner city, where the school is located. Otherwise Howard W. Blake would not have had as much diversity in its students. Some have argued though, that the magnet program even though it's supposed to promote diversity still manages to separate students into different groups. Students that are bussed in to Blake because it is the school that is assigned to their area are Liberal Arts students. The majority of them being black and latino students that live in the surrounding area and are lower middle class or below. Fine Arts students are bussed in from all over Hillsborough county. These students, for the most part, are caucasian. A fine art student can go through four years of high school without taking more than 6 classes with a liberal art student and vice versa. This has lead to division within the student body into these two different groups.
  • Accelerated Education: Blake Accelerated Curriculum Program is an online high school magnet program in the School District of Hillsborough County. Our is one of seven franchises of Florida Virtual School. Our online program has certified teachers that are innovative and motivated to teach in an online format. This program allows students to complete about 95% of their coursework online. Students only report to campus for midterms, final exams, tutoring, and other testing settings. Students can actually customize their education to become accelerated or to just accommodate their needs. Some students accelerate their high school career by 1-2 years early.
  • Creative Writing and Yellow Jacket Press: Yellow Jacket Press is produced by the Journalism Department at Blake School of the Arts in Tampa, Florida. The Creative Writing Department (a different Department from the Journalism Department) is home to the Yellow Jacket Press Chapbook Contest for Florida Poets. The participants in this contest include students of Blake and professional poets and writers from all around the state of Florida. Visit the Yellow Jackets press web page click here.
  • Performing Arts: The performing arts program provides a structured opportunity for the study of drama, musical theatre and technical theatre as primary divisions of art and literature, the performance and production of plays, and the personal growth and development of the individual.
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School Zip Code:
About This Zip Code (33607)
School Zip (33607) (FL) State Average
Population (Approximate) 22,801 people 15,366,089 people
% (age 25+) w/College Degree 18% 27%
Population Average Age 37 years old 38.7 years old
Average Household size 2.4 persons 2.3 persons
Median Household Income $27,056 $38,451
Avg. # of Rooms in Household 4.4 rooms 5.0 rooms
Median Age of Housing Structure 44 years old 32 years old
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% Owning / % Renting 51% / 49% 67% / 33%
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