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Enrollment
680
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087004871
DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
6720 COVINGTON GARDEN DR, APOLLO BEACH, FL 33572 · (813) 672-5388 · Hillsborough County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL680 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
297 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 116 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 108 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (116) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL→EISENHOWER MIDDLE SCHOOL
Based on published attendance-zone data from HILLSBOROUGH. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
55.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
58.6%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 58.6% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 51.6% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
52.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (52.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 680 | 43.7% | 52.3% |
| CROWN POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 785 | 47.3% | 51.0% |
| SCENIC HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PENSACOLA | 773 | 42.0% | 55.4% |
| DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT MANDARIN JACKSONVILLE | 856 | 46.6% | 53.9% |
| VALRICO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VALRICO | 733 | 46.1% | 69.2% |
| WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY RIVERVIEW | 812 | 38.3% | 43.0% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #1,217 of 2,136 | #71 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.6% | #1,164 of 2,149 ▲ 152 | #72 of 176 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,060 of 2,149 ▲ 430 | #63 of 176 ▲ 37 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 680 | #778 of 2,267 | #68 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #315 of 2,077 | #23 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.6% | #162 of 2,108 | #29 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.7% | #1,482 of 2,188 | #111 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.8% | #757 of 1,374 | #70 of 124 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
680
+30 (+5%) vs 2020
-2% since 2010-11, when it was 695
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 13.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 680 | 48.8 | 13.9:1 | 44% (297) |
| 2023-24 | 618 | 39 | 15.8:1 | 48% (299) |
| 2022-23 | 550 | 36 | 15.3:1 | 54% (296) |
| 2020-21 | 650 | 47 | 13.8:1 | 45% (292) |
| 2017-18 | 789 | 58 | 13.6:1 | 52% (414) |
| 2015-16 | 845 | 66 | 12.8:1 | 45% (381) |
| 2010-11 | 695 | 53 | 13.1:1 | 50% (347) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Among the schools in APOLLO BEACH, Florida, is DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 680 students.
Enrollment across the 300 schools in HILLSBOROUGH totals 221,318 students.
White students account for 38% of enrollment at DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, more than any other group. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 22% Black, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. By comparison, Hillsborough County residents are about 51% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 71%.
The school has 48.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.9 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 3.5 more students per teacher than here. Of all students at DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 44% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Hillsborough County is close, at 43%.
DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (52.3%) and its predicted rate (59.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
In the surrounding county, Hillsborough County, the median household earns about $79,540 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 38%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Hillsborough County has 320 public schools with about 223,193 students, including DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
A public school about 0.9 miles away, EISENHOWER MIDDLE SCHOOL, is the closest to DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among its closest neighbors with test data, DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4th of 8 on proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment increased by 30 students, from 650 to 680.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hillsborough County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,522,748
Census ACS
Median income
$79,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
320
223,193 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HILLSBOROUGH
- FLORIDA CONNECTIONS ACADEMYCombined · 5,748 students
- JULE F SUMNER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,602 students
- NEWSOME HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,157 students
- ALONSO HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,863 students
- PLANT CITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,572 students
- LENNARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,553 students
Other schools in APOLLO BEACH
- DOROTHY C YORK PK-8 MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 1,381 students
- SLAM ACADEMY AT APOLLO BEACHCombined · 1,235 students
- APOLLO BEACH K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 794 students
- WATERSET CHARTER SCHOOLElementary
Nearby schools
- EISENHOWER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,174
- EISENHOWER EXCEPTIONAL CENTER0.9 mi · 59
- EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,809
- CORR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 696
- DOROTHY C YORK PK-8 MAGNET SCHOOL1.4 mi · 1,381
- BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 776
Frequently asked questions
About DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 680 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 13.9:1 (49 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 38% White, 31% Hispanic, 22% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
DOBY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by HILLSBOROUGH.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.