WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY

WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in RIVERVIEW, Florida, run under HILLSBOROUGH, enrolls 812 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 34% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

HILLSBOROUGH comprises 300 schools with combined enrollment of 221,318 students; WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY is among them.

On demographics, WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY reports that the largest single group is White at 34%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 33% Hispanic, 22% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 51% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 62.0%; WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY posts 43.0%, -19.0 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Hillsborough County put the typical household earns roughly $79,540 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Hillsborough County's 320 public schools (combined enrollment of about 223,193 students), WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

SUMMERFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 54.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WARREN HOPE DAWSON ELEMENTARY has rose 61%, going from 503 students in 2018 to 812 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

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