DICKENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a medium-sized primary school in TAMPA, Florida, DICKENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL educates 514 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within HILLSBOROUGH.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; DICKENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, DICKENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 11% White, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Hillsborough County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting DICKENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Hillsborough County's rate of about 43%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DICKENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Hillsborough County shows the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 DICKENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

BAY CREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DICKENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 19%: 633 students in 2018 compared to 514 in 2025.

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