Founded in 1934, Middleton was the first high school for African Americans in Hillsborough County during segregation. Named for Black civic leader George S. Middleton, it remains a cornerstone of Tampa’s Black educational heritage.
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A historical marker on the campus recounts the school’s founding and its WPA-era rebuilding. The school reopened in 2002 as a magnet school, and the marker is publicly viewable.