Trinity School for Children, Tampa FL

Original Research by School Decision on Trinity School for Children

Trinity School for Children is a charter school in Tampa's Hillsborough County, serving kindergarten through eighth grade on West Osborne Avenue. As a charter, it operates outside the traditional district assignment system, so families choose it rather than being placed by boundary. The recent district-wide rezoning that reshuffled attendance boundaries across Hillsborough County's traditional schools does not directly affect Trinity's enrollment process, though families should note that the newly approved property tax levy supporting teacher pay does flow to charter schools under state law.

The school is a mid-to-large campus for its grade band, with grades running roughly even in size from kindergarten through eighth. The student body is predominantly Hispanic and white, with smaller shares of multiracial, Black, and Asian students. One of the more striking characteristics is how few students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That share is extremely low, well below what you would expect in a Tampa urban setting, which tells you something about the economic profile of the families who have chosen and accessed this school. Data on English learners and students with IEPs were not available in what was provided.

On Florida's FAST assessments, the academic picture is genuinely mixed, and worth reading grade by grade rather than as a single verdict. In math, proficiency rates across grades three through seven are solid and in some grades strong, with seventh grade in particular standing out as a high point. Eighth grade math is the clear outlier: proficiency there drops sharply, to a level well below the rest of the school's own math results. That gap is large enough that a parent of an incoming or current middle schooler would want to ask the school directly about what is happening in that grade. ELA results are more consistent across the middle grades, with fifth grade a high point and fourth grade the softer spot. Science proficiency at the tested grades sits in the solid-but-not-exceptional range. No multi-year trend data were available, so there is no way to say from this data whether these patterns represent improvement, decline, or stability. A graduation rate does not apply here because the school ends at eighth grade.

No program offerings were provided in the data, and the school's website would be the right place to learn about extracurriculars, any enrichment tracks, and how the school prepares eighth graders for the high school transition.

The surrounding neighborhood sits in the Seminole Heights corridor of Tampa, a historically recognized area that has seen steady residential reinvestment. The broader Tampa housing market near this zip code shows home values modestly above the Florida state benchmark, with values that have dipped slightly year over year. Rents have held relatively flat. For buyers entering now, the price-to-income ratio and estimated monthly carrying costs sit above what is typically considered affordable, consistent with a city that has absorbed substantial in-migration over the past several years. Tampa itself is in an active growth phase, with large mixed-use development concentrated downtown and in adjacent districts, and publicly reported estimates suggest the metro has been adding population at a meaningful pace, though some employment indicators showed softening earlier in 2026.

For a family weighing this school, the core questions come down to what draws you to charter enrollment over a district-zoned school, whether the economic and demographic profile of the community fits your family, and specifically whether the eighth grade math pattern is something you want to investigate further before committing to a K-8 pathway here.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 373%

School 73% · District 58% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 471%

School 71% · District 59% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 568%

School 68% · District 54% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 675%

School 75% · District 54% · ▲ 21 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 784%

School 84% · District 36% · ▲ 48 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 47 pts above county median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 58% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 363%

School 63% · District 53% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 456%

School 56% · District 53% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 579%

School 79% · District 53% · ▲ 27 pts above district

▲ 25 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

Grade 677%

School 77% · District 55% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 775%

School 75% · District 55% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 865%

School 65% · District 52% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Science

Grade 558%

School 58% · District 50% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 862%

School 62% · District 48% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

This schoolHILLSBOROUGH, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.