Independent rankings of Private schools in Hillsborough County, built from director interviews and verified data — never from school payments.
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Hillsborough County has 167 private K-12 schools in our database, drawn from FLDOE, NCES, and direct outreach to school directors. Annual tuition ranges from $1.5K/yr to $25K/yr, with a median of $10.2K/yr across schools that publish a number. Tampa has the highest concentration with 98 schools, followed by Brandon (14). 167 of these schools accept Florida Step Up / FES scholarships — roughly 100% of the list — so families using state-funded scholarships have real choice here.
Private schools on this page set their own admissions criteria. Most ask for a school visit, prior records, and a family interview; competitive K and 6th-grade entry points often fill 6-9 months before the start of school. 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: Under $20K list, Tuition-Free.
We rank by how well each school fits your family — academics, cost, distance, and values. Never by size, popularity, or payment (schools can’t pay for rank). The coarse admission-likelihood band is always free.
Seffner·Hillsborough County·Grades PK-12·~1,230 students
State-licensed
Families like yours are admitted here most of the time.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades PK-12·~1,223 students
State-licensed
A solid match — families like yours are often admitted here.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades PK-12·~993 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades 9-12·~860 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades PK-12·~820 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades K-12·~800 students
State-licensed
Families like yours are admitted here most of the time.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades 9-12·~781 students
State-licensed
Families like yours are admitted here most of the time.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades PK-8·~601 students
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades PK3-8·~578 students
State-licensed
Selective private school — we don’t have a verified acceptance rate yet. Similar schools admit a solid share of applicants. A general signal by school type, not a personalized estimate.
Tampa·Hillsborough County·Grades PK-8·~522 students
State-licensed
Families like yours are admitted here most of the time.
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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