ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL

ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, a mid-tier 6-8 campus in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, operated by DUVAL, caters to 684 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 23% Hispanic, 19% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Duval County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.6%; actual is 34.1%, a gap of -15.5 points.

In the broader community, Duval County reports that median household income runs about $71,277, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 220 public schools in Duval County (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students).

Nearest neighbor: PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.

ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL has fell 11%, going from 772 students in 2018 to 684 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 58% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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