CHARGER ACADEMY

CHARGER ACADEMY is an intermediate school of middle-of-the-pack scale in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, operated by DUVAL, teacheing 964 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 21% bigger than the state mean of about 794.

CHARGER ACADEMY is one of 206 schools operated by DUVAL, a district that enrolls 131,562 students overall.

Demographically, CHARGER ACADEMY reports that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 20% White, 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CHARGER ACADEMY has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting CHARGER ACADEMY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 67% of students at CHARGER ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Duval County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHARGER ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.6%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of -4.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Duval County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,277 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. CHARGER ACADEMY is one of 220 public schools in Duval County (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students).

Nearest neighbor: OAK HILL ACADEMY, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CHARGER ACADEMY comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 6 years. Over the past 6-year window, the student count rose 9%: 882 students in 2018 compared to 964 in 2024. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 11% to 17%. Class-load math has loosened: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2024.

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