Dumbarton Elementary

Set in Richmond, Virginia, Dumbarton Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school, part of Henrico County Public Schools. It caters to 684 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 499 students each, so Dumbarton Elementary sits 37% bigger than that benchmark.

Henrico County Public Schools comprises 69 schools with combined enrollment of 51,044 students; Dumbarton Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Dumbarton Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% Black, 16% Asian, 13% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Henrico County as a whole is about 7% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Dumbarton Elementary has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Dumbarton Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at Dumbarton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Henrico County's rate of about 67%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Dumbarton Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 63.5%; Dumbarton Elementary posts 45.8%, -17.7 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Henrico County) records that the typical household earns roughly $88,783 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Henrico County's 84 public schools (combined enrollment of about 51,753 students), Dumbarton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hermitage High, roughly 0.4 miles away. 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), Dumbarton Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 11%: 614 students in 2018 compared to 684 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 22% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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