DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 416 ARIANA ST, in LAKELAND, Florida, DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary campus that hosts 344 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by POLK. Enrollment runs roughly 43% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

Across the 163 schools in POLK (116,552 students total), DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 26% Black, 25% White, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the income-and-resources front, DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Polk County (around 65%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.2%; this one delivers 38.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Polk County shows median household income runs about $65,978, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 172 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students).

SOUTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. DIXIELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 432 (now 344). Hispanic enrollment moved from 33% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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