{"id":329961,"date":"2026-07-05T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329961\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:19:10","slug":"eight-of-11-new-tampa-schools-earn-a-grades-neighborhood-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/329961\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Of 11 New Tampa Schools Earn &#8216;A&#8217; Grades \u2014 Neighborhood News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1585\" height=\"1654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NT-School-Grades.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69535\" style=\"width:503px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Eight of New Tampa\u2019s eleven Hillsborough County public schools have earned \u201cA\u201d grades from the Florida Department of Education (DoE) this year, including Tampa Palms Elementary, which improved from the \u201cB\u201d it received in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only three schools in New Tampa received either a \u201cB\u201d or a \u201cC\u201d grade, including Turner-Bartels K-8 School, which dropped from an \u201cA\u201d in 2025 to a \u201cB\u201d this year. Wharton High also received a \u201cB,\u201d after earning a \u201cC\u201d in both 2024 and 2025, and Freedom High received a \u201cC\u201d again this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Hillsborough School District received its first-ever \u201cA\u201d grade from the Florida DoE, after earning a \u201cB\u201d each of the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Neighborhood News\u00a0applauds the excellence of our New Tampa schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight of New Tampa\u2019s eleven Hillsborough County public schools have earned \u201cA\u201d grades from the Florida Department of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-329961","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\/329961","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=329961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}