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Tampa's Hillsborough Virtual School is a charter school serving 177 students in grades K-5. It is coed.

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We have gone to several traditional public schools with our four children. They have varied from small town school to large, highest rated in the state schools. This school is by far my favorite! You get the best of both worlds - you child will have a diploma and you have teachers there to help your child, yet you get to do this at home and have the flexibility you would get with doing this at home. My son has thrived here. He is very bright and in the subjects he loves he just shoots through - he has even done two full years of science in one year. The teachers are very friendly and really do seem to care about the students! I love HVS!
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129 E. 124th Avenue
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