Sumner High School (Riverview, Florida)
# Sumner High School (Riverview, Florida)

Jule F. Sumner High School is a public high school in Riverview, Florida. It opened in 2020 and was built to relieve overcrowding at East Bay High School in Gibsonton and Earl J. Lennard High School in Ruskin, though it also took some students from Joe E. Newsome High School in Lithia and from Durant High School in Plant City. The school is named after Jule F. Sumner, who was an early settler of the Southshore area.

## Grades

Sumner High School serves grades 6 and 9-11 beginning in the 2020–21 school year. In the 2021–22 school year, the school will support grades 7 and 9–12. In the 2022–23 school year, the school will support grades 8–12. Beginning in the 2023–24 school year, Sumner High School will exclusively be a secondary school (grades 9–12). This is a part of the school's Academy 2027 program, to relieve overcrowding in middle schools in the area before a new one is built.

## Athletics

The Stingrays' football field is one of three in Hillsborough County to have an artificial turf field. Sumner High School's fight song is The New Colonial March by R. B. Hall.

## Demographics

Demographic data includes the Academy 2027 program students. 51.3% of the students at Sumner are male, while 48.7% are female.

Sumner High ethnic enrollment :

| Race | 2020-2021 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 | 2021-2022 | 2022-2023 | 2022-2023 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hispanic or Latino | 1,024 | 43.21% | 1,426 | 41.05% | 1,557 | 40.74% |
| Black (NH) | 627 | 26.46% | 1,034 | 29.76% | 1,171 | 30.64% |
| White (NH) | 530 | 22.36% | 707 | 20.35% | 768 | 20.09% |
| Mixed/Multi-Racial (NH) | 139 | 5.86% | 240 | 6.91% | 259 | 6.78% |
| Asian (NH) | 48 | 2.03% | 63 | 1.81% | 61 | 1.60% |
| Native American (NH) | 2 | 0.08% | 4 | 0.12% | 6 | 0.16% |
| Total | 2,370 | 100.00% | 3,474 | 100.00% | 3,822 | 100.00% |

Sumner High lunch status :

| Status | 2021-2022 | 2021-2022 |
| - | - | - |
| Free lunch eligible | 1,617 | 46.75% |
| Neither | 1,572 | 45.45% |
| Reduced-price lunch eligible | 270 | 7.80% |
| Total | 3,459 | 100.00% |

## Zoning

The boundary for current schools going to Sumner, which was formerly called "New High School TTT," is illustrated below.

Student body at Sumner :

| Academic Year | Class President | Valedictorian | Salutatorian | HS Enrollment | Graduates |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2020–2021 | none | none | none | 1,920 | none |
| 2021–2022 | Kayla Brown | Jalena Dinh | Shaunti Sanford | 3,087 | 554 |
| 2022–2023 | Jonathan Sommervil | Chloe Mai | Jackson Hopkins | 3,822 | 695 |
