ARGYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ARGYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an average-sized elementary school in ORANGE PARK, Florida, part of CLAY. Current enrollment sits at 722 students spanning grades pre-K through 6.

Within CLAY, which oversees 50 schools and 39,116 students, ARGYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, ARGYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 40% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% White, 21% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 63% of students at ARGYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Clay County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ARGYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Clay County) shows that median household income runs about $87,820, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ARGYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 55 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 38,806 students).

CHIMNEY LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ARGYLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 60.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 735 students in 2018 compared to 722 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 40% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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