ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a rural-scale elementary school, overseen by DUVAL. It hosts 179 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.

Within DUVAL, which oversees 206 schools and 131,562 students, ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 17% White, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Duval County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Duval County's rate of about 47%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.2%, the actual is 45.7%, a residual of -7.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Duval County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,277, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Duval County runs 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), of which ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 40.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARLINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 26%, going from 242 students in 2018 to 179 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 66% to 44% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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