Enrollment
289
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048000766
ANCHOR ACADEMY
555 WONDERWOOD DR, ATLANTIC BEACH, FL 32233 · (904) 247-5996 · Duval County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL289 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
19.3:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
31 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 37 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 26% larger than its 5th grade class (38).
Student demographics
75%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
64.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.3pp since 2023
Math
58.3%
FL avg 58.9% . -8.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.5% | 58.3% |
| 2023-24 | 55.1% | 66.8% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
60.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 76% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 ANCHOR ACADEMY
ANCHOR ACADEMY's state test result (60.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANCHOR ACADEMY this school | 289 | 10.7% | 60.4% |
| HILLCREST ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 489 | 11.7% | 83.3% |
| GARDENS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY ARTS INC PALM BEACH GARDENS | 303 | 16.5% | 49.7% |
| THE READING EDGE ACADEMY DEBARY | 328 | 8.8% | 48.8% |
| JOHN STOCKTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 464 | 15.5% | 84.7% |
| LITERACY/LEADERSHIP/TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY TAMPA | 437 | 8.7% | 41.6% |
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 ANCHOR ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.4% | #844 of 2,136 | #37 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #1,173 of 2,149 ▼ 505 | #55 of 122 ▼ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.5% | #644 of 2,149 ▲ 283 | #24 of 122 ▲ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 289 | #2,004 of 2,267 | #106 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #1,875 of 2,077 | #89 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.4% | #14 of 2,108 | #2 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.7% | #2,115 of 2,188 | #125 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.3% | #210 of 1,374 | #16 of 80 |
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
289
-43 (-13%) vs 2020
-66% since 1990-91, when it was 861
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 17.5:1
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 | 289 | 15 | 19.3:1 | 11% (31) |
| 2023-24 | 322 | 15 | 21.5:1 | 16% (53) |
| 2022-23 | 340 | 18 | 18.9:1 | 16% (54) |
| 2020-21 | 332 | 19 | 17.5:1 | 23% (75) |
| 2017-18 | 409 | 28 | 14.6:1 | 25% (104) |
| 2015-16 | 427 | 27 | 15.8:1 | 32% (135) |
| 2010-11 | 436 | 28 | 15.6:1 | 59% (256) |
| 2000-01 | 633 | 33 | 19.2:1 | 65% (411) |
| 1990-91 | 861 | 39 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ANCHOR ACADEMY.
About ANCHOR ACADEMY
ANCHOR ACADEMY is an elementary school in ATLANTIC BEACH, Florida, reachable at (904) 247-5996. Enrolled students number 289 students, in pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 52% lower than the average for elementary schools in Florida, which is about 604.
DUVAL has 131,562 students in 206 schools, and ANCHOR ACADEMY is one of those schools.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at ANCHOR ACADEMY. The largest is White students, at 35%. Smaller groups are 24% Black, 22% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, and 4% Asian. For comparison, the population of Duval County is roughly 51% White. ANCHOR ACADEMY's diversity index is 75%, against a US figure of 70%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 19.3:1, with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That is 1.8 students per teacher above the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 11%. That is 36 points below the 47% average for public schools in Duval County.
allk12 grades ANCHOR ACADEMY a C+. The grade compares the school only with Florida public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for ANCHOR ACADEMY is 75.8%. It actually posts 60.4%, which is 15.4 points lower and in the bottom 10% of Florida schools.
Duval County has about 1,023,153 residents, and the median household income is $71,277, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. In all, Duval County has 220 public schools and roughly 141,209 students.
The closest other public school is SEASIDE CHARTER K-8 SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, ANCHOR ACADEMY ranks 6th on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
Enrollment is down 13% from 2020-21, when ANCHOR ACADEMY had 332 students, to 2024-25, when it had 289. Students per teacher rose from 17.5 in 2020-21 to 19.3 in 2024-25.
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Duval County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,023,153
Census ACS
Median income
$71,277
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
220
141,209 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DUVAL
- ATLANTIC COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,887 students
- SANDALWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,627 students
- MANDARIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,343 students
- DUNCAN U. FLETCHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,184 students
- FIRST COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,098 students
- ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,896 students
Other schools in ATLANTIC BEACH
- MAYPORT COASTAL SCIENCE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 821 students
- SEASIDE CHARTER K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 484 students
- ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 482 students
- MAYPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 429 students
- MARINE SCIENCE EDUCATION CENTERHigh · 25 students
Other Anchor Academy schools
One other US public school is named Anchor Academy. ANCHOR ACADEMY is the largest of the 2.
- Anchor AcademyDanville, KY · 34 students
Nearby schools
- SEASIDE CHARTER K-8 SCHOOL0.3 mi · 484
- MAYPORT COASTAL SCIENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 821
- MAYPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 429
- MARINE SCIENCE EDUCATION CENTER1.9 mi · 25
- ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.2 mi · 482
- NEPTUNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.9 mi · 803
Frequently asked questions
About ANCHOR ACADEMYHow many students attend ANCHOR ACADEMY?
ANCHOR ACADEMY enrolls approximately 289 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does ANCHOR ACADEMY serve?
ANCHOR ACADEMY serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does ANCHOR ACADEMY have?
ANCHOR ACADEMY employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.3:1.
How diverse is ANCHOR ACADEMY?
ANCHOR ACADEMY reports a student body of 35% White, 22% Hispanic, 24% Black, 4% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is ANCHOR ACADEMY in?
ANCHOR ACADEMY is part of DUVAL.
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