ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 2710 DUPONT AVE, in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL is a low-enrollment middle-grades school that caters to 579 students (grades 6 through 8), part of DUVAL. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

DUVAL runs 206 schools in total, collectively educating 131,562 students. ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 35% Black, 17% White, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.6%; actual is 34.3%, a gap of -21.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Duval County) records that median household income runs about $71,277, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Duval County's 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SAMUEL W. WOLFSON HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 46.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 32%: 851 students in 2018 compared to 579 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 29% to 37% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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