Enrollment
324
Elementary
DISTRICT 600 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLSBOROUGH·NCES 120087000944
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
1730 W UNION ST, TAMPA, FL 33607 · (813) 276-5677 · Hillsborough County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL324 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of Florida public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
252 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
52%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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
53.2%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.6pp since 2023
Math
53.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.2% | 53.3% |
| 2023-24 | 51.6% | 52.5% |
% 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
50.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL's state test result (50.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL this school | 324 | 77.8% | 50.5% |
| OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 314 | 79.3% | 32.0% |
| ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 315 | 78.4% | 24.0% |
| BEN GAMLA CHARTER SCHOOL SOUTH BROWARD MIAMI | 295 | 73.2% | 61.1% |
| RAMONA BOULEVARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 292 | 76.4% | 45.5% |
| SHEEHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 396 | 78.3% | 26.6% |
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 DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Hillsborough County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.5% | #1,314 of 2,136 | #80 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #1,399 of 2,149 ▼ 122 | #86 of 176 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.2% | #1,153 of 2,149 ▼ 62 | #69 of 176 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 324 | #1,944 of 2,267 | #157 of 182 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,028 of 2,077 | #84 of 164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.0% | #1,275 of 2,108 | #128 of 169 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 77.8% | #211 of 2,188 | #19 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.8% | #223 of 621 | #17 of 41 |
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
324
+81 (+33%) vs 2020
-49% since 1990-91, when it was 632
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 324 | 20.5 | 15.8:1 | 78% (252) |
| 2023-24 | 356 | 24 | 14.8:1 | 78% (277) |
| 2022-23 | 309 | 21 | 14.7:1 | 79% (243) |
| 2020-21 | 243 | 19 | 12.8:1 | 92% (223) |
| 2017-18 | 275 | 23 | 12.0:1 | 94% (259) |
| 2015-16 | 274 | 29 | 9.4:1 | 88% (240) |
| 2010-11 | 254 | 23 | 11.0:1 | 88% (224) |
| 2000-01 | 419 | 28 | 15.0:1 | 49% (207) |
| 1990-91 | 632 | 34 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL.
About DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school that serves part of TAMPA, Florida. It has an enrollment of 324 students in kindergarten through 5. That compares with an average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is one school in HILLSBOROUGH, a system of 300 schools with 221,318 students.
The largest group at DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is Black students, at 65%. Other groups make up 21% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 6% White. County-wide, 16% of Hillsborough County residents are Black. The diversity index for DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is 52%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 20.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 15.8 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 78%. The 43% average for public schools in Hillsborough County is 35 points lower.
Among Florida public elementary schools, DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL outscored 53%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL would score about 42.2%. It scores 50.5%, 8.3 points above that figure.
For Hillsborough County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $79,540 a year, roughly 38% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL, Hillsborough County has 320 public schools.
STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL comes in 3rd of 6 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES assigns DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 324, compared with 243 in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.8:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.8:1.
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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
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- STEWART MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL0.4 mi · 793
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Frequently asked questions
About DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOLHow large is DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 324 students in grades KG-05.
Is DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL have?
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
How diverse is DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL?
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL reports a student body of 6% White, 21% Hispanic, 65% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL public or private?
DUNBAR ELEMENTARY MAGNET 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.