Dover Elementary

Located at 301 East Alaska Ave., in Fairfield, California, Dover Elementary is a mid-sized elementary-level community that caters to 463 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Fairfield-Suisun Unified.

Dover Elementary is one of 31 schools operated by Fairfield-Suisun Unified, a district that hosts 20,505 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dover Elementary logs that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 15% Black, 11% multiracial, 10% Asian, 5% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, On paper, Dover Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Solano County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dover Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 31.0%; this one comes in at 15.0%, -16.0 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Solano County shows median household income runs about $100,401, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Solano County's 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students), Dover Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Sem Yeto Continuation High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dover Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 17.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 27%: 631 students in 2018 compared to 463 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 48% to 58%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 23.1:1 today.

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