Which Tampa Bay schools are closing down, and when?

As declining enrollment continues to pose challenges to school districts across the country, and Florida public schools face the looming uncertainty of charter schools being able to co-locate in their spaces if not at full capacity, talks of school closures have been abuzz all year.

Here’s a look at the public schools currently scheduled to close in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties.

In Pinellas County, two schools are closing at the end of this school year.

Cross Bayou Elementary in Pinellas Park and Disston Academy in St. Petersburg will close, and students will be reassigned.

The district will also merge Bay Point elementary and middle into a K-8 school in 2027.

Oldsmar Elementary will also turn into to a K-8 school over the next three years.

School district officials have said they anticipate more changes to be announced in the fall. The district has 33,000 unused seats after those two closures.

The district will hold town hall meetings over the summer to seek community input, and will focus on regions “north of Curlew Road, Curlew south to Gulf to Bay Boulevard, Gulf to Bay south to Park Boulevard, and south of Park Boulevard.”

Pasco officials voted to merge Gulfside Elementary and Paul R. Smith Middle at the Smith campus this fall, moving the campuses from less than 65% occupation to a nearly 90% occupied campus.

Hillsborough County school officials recently voted to make changes for the 2027-28 school year. They voted to close Graham Elementary and move all those students to Broward Elementary, bothof which were operating at 40% capacity. They also voted to close Madison Middle School and move some of those students back to Monroe Middle School, a school they closed in 2024 and sent those students to Madison. Other Madison students will be moved to the new Stewart Middle Magnet School.

The board also voted to make Sulfur Springs K-8 a K-5 school and move middle school students to surrounding schools.

Unlike other schools that faced enrollment struggles, the board also voted to close Pizzo K-8, which has high enrollment, but faces a nearly tenfold rent increase after lease negotiations with USF that were finalized in 2024. Members of the Pizzo community are still trying to work with district officials and USF to reconsider dispersing the campus among other schools.

The board also voted to move some students at Jennings, Greco, Sligh and Stewart middle schools to Young Middle Magnet School, which is operating under 30% capacity.

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