DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary campus in TAMPA, Florida, run under HILLSBOROUGH. The school teaches 526 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH (221,318 students total), DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (80%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 9% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.3%, the actual is 37.9%, a residual of -7.4 points.

In the broader community, Hillsborough County reports that median household income runs about $79,540, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hillsborough County runs 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), of which DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ALONSO HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 36%: 820 students in 2018 compared to 526 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.