BILTMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, BILTMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an one-room-style elementary campus, part of DUVAL. It enrolls 206 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 66% below typical.

DUVAL runs 206 schools in total, collectively educating 131,562 students. BILTMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, BILTMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 81% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 9% Hispanic, 5% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Duval County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BILTMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Duval County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, BILTMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 44.0%; this one comes in at 29.1%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Duval County shows median household income runs about $71,277, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Duval County runs 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), of which BILTMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PAXON SCHOOL/ADVANCED STUDIES, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BILTMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.5%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 287 students in 2018 compared to 206 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 13% to 5% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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