BAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in DOVER, Florida, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH, works with 719 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within HILLSBOROUGH, which oversees 300 schools and 221,318 students, BAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, BAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 41% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, BAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting BAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 39.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Hillsborough County) logs that median household income runs about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which BAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is STRAWBERRY CREST HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BAILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 731 students in 2018 compared to 719 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 39% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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