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Enrollment
482
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048000662
ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
298 SHERRY DR, ATLANTIC BEACH, FL 32233 · (904) 247-5924 · Duval County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL482 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
74 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 21 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
41%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
77.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
85.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.1% | 85.5% |
| 2023-24 | 75.3% | 80.7% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
80.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
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 ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (80.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 482 | 15.4% | 80.5% |
| BROOKER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS | 501 | 14.6% | 83.0% |
| SCULPTOR CHARTER SCHOOL TITUSVILLE | 558 | 19.0% | 62.5% |
| CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY DUNEDIN | 538 | 19.9% | 86.9% |
| ROBERT L. STEVENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MERRITT ISLAND | 481 | 16.0% | 89.3% |
| LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JUPITER | 569 | 14.8% | N/A |
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 ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.5% | #145 of 2,136 | #5 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.5% | #135 of 2,149 ▲ 71 | #6 of 122 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #230 of 2,149 ▼ 2 | #8 of 122 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 482 | #1,485 of 2,267 | #61 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #1,309 of 2,077 | #40 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.5% | #1,628 of 2,108 | #102 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.4% | #2,059 of 2,188 | #123 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.3% | #530 of 621 | #29 of 33 |
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
482
-2 (0%) vs 2020
-26% since 1990-91, when it was 654
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 482 | 29 | 16.6:1 | 15% (74) |
| 2023-24 | 502 | 31 | 16.2:1 | 19% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 479 | 30 | 16.0:1 | 19% (92) |
| 2020-21 | 484 | 34 | 14.2:1 | 26% (125) |
| 2017-18 | 471 | 35 | 13.5:1 | 28% (133) |
| 2015-16 | 442 | 32 | 13.8:1 | 34% (151) |
| 2010-11 | 504 | 31 | 16.3:1 | 36% (179) |
| 2000-01 | 486 | 25 | 19.4:1 | 42% (205) |
| 1990-91 | 654 | 34 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school for students in ATLANTIC BEACH, Florida. Enrollment totals 482 students across pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Florida enroll around 604, and this school is 20% below that mark.
DUVAL includes 206 schools. Together they enroll 131,562 students.
White students are 75% of those enrolled at ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The rest of enrollment is 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Duval County's population at about 51%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 41%.
Classroom staffing at ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL totals 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.6:1. Compared with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida, this school's ratio is lower. Federal data show 15% of students (74) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 47% for public schools in Duval County.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is +7.0 points: 80.5% actual, 73.5% predicted.
In the wider Duval County area, median household income comes to about $71,277, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Duval County's 220 public schools enroll about 141,209 students and include ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
NEPTUNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.0 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 65.7%; ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 80.5%, ranking 2nd of 9.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show 484 students in 2020-21 and 482 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. The ratio was 14.2:1 in 2020-21 and 16.6:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- MAYPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 429 students
- ANCHOR ACADEMYElementary · 289 students
- MARINE SCIENCE EDUCATION CENTERHigh · 25 students
Nearby schools
- NEPTUNE BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 803
- DUNCAN U. FLETCHER HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 2,184
- DUNCAN U. FLETCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,190
- SAN PABLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 481
- MAYPORT COASTAL SCIENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL2.6 mi · 821
- MAYPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 429
Frequently asked questions
About ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 482 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 75% White, 11% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
ATLANTIC BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by DUVAL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.