Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades 9-12·~781 students
Best High Schools in Hillsborough County for Language Immersion under $20K
Independent rankings of High schools in Hillsborough County with Language Immersion programs, built from director interviews and verified data — never from school payments.
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Looking for the best high schools in Hillsborough County? We track 2 K-12 options that serve high grades. Median published tuition is $13.3K/yr. 2 of these schools accept Florida Step Up / FES scholarships — roughly 100% of the list — so families using state-funded scholarships have real choice here.
High-school admissions usually require an ISEE or SSAT, transcripts, two teacher recommendations, and an interview. Application deadlines cluster in November-January for fall entry. Every school is re-verified through direct outreach to admissions teams; data is refreshed on a 180-day cadence and timestamped on each profile.
See also: Scholarship-friendly, Tuition-Free.
- 1Tampa Catholic High SchoolAccepts scholarshipsCatholicCo-edAffordableTuition$16.9K/yrTypeCatholicStudents~781
- 2Foundation Christian Academy
Valrico·Hillsborough County·Grades PK-12·~548 students
Accepts scholarshipsChristian (Bible-based; Church of Christ heritage)Co-edAffordableTuition$9.6K/yrTypeChristian (Bible-based; Church of Christ heritage)Students~548
How we rank these schools
Built relationships, not scrapers. AdmitCompass ranks schools using a composite score that blends four signals: enrollment size (a proxy for stability and program breadth), tuition reasonableness within the local market, freshness of our most recent verification, and a small bonus for schools with full admissions detail published on their profile.
Public data comes from the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE), the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and each school's own admissions pages. The information that actually matters to most families — acceptance rates, deadlines, what a director cares about — comes from direct interviews with school directors and admissions coaches across our active markets.
We do not publish scoring weights or per-axis thresholds. That keeps the moat intact: the rankings reflect actual conversations with people inside schools, not a formula anyone with a crawler could clone. Every profile is re-verified on a 180-day cadence, and the "last updated" date is timestamped on every school page.
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