{"id":222832,"date":"2026-04-08T02:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222832\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:06:37","slug":"these-hillsborough-county-schools-are-at-risk-of-closing-removing-grade-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222832\/","title":{"rendered":"These Hillsborough County schools are at risk of closing, removing grade levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsborough County Schools leaders will decide on the fate of a handful of schools as they look to downsize the district&#8217;s portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Several Hillsborough County schools are at risk of closing or seeing major changes in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting on Tuesday, leaders will decide on the fate of a handful of schools as they look to downsize the district&#8217;s portfolio. It&#8217;s part of a plan to \u201cimprove fiscal and operational responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County Schools is considering a proposal that would close Pizzo K-8, Graham Elementary and Madison Middle schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pizzo K-8 is currently operating under a lease on USF&#8217;s campus. And according to the school district, Graham Elementary is operating under 40% capacity and Madison Middle under 60% capacity.<\/p>\n<p>School leaders will also consider removing grades 6-8 at Sulphur Springs Community School, changing the boundary for Young Middle Magnet and building a new school in Wimauma.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under that plan, some students from Jennings, Greco, Sligh and Stewart middle schools would be rezoned to attend Young Middle Magnet. Some students currently at Shields, Barrington, Eisenhower and Turkey Creek middle schools would attend the new school in Wimauma.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County Schools leaders will decide on the fate of a handful of schools as they look to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-222832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}