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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,090
Elementary
DISTRICT 952 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. JOHNS·NCES 120174004141
DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4100 RACE TRACK RD, SAINT JOHNS, FL 32259 · (904) 547-3880 · St. Johns County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,090 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 90% of Florida public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
70 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
237 students
DISTRICT 28% · 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 | 52 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 148 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 153 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 181 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 178 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 180 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 198 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (148) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (198).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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% . -0.4pp since 2023
Math
83.3%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.0pp 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 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.1% | 83.3% |
| 2023-24 | 77.5% | 85.3% |
% 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
79.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (79.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 1,090 | 21.7% | 79.8% |
| WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SANFORD | 896 | 23.9% | 76.2% |
| DEER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 957 | 23.5% | 73.0% |
| WARDS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST AUGUSTINE | 1,156 | 21.5% | 70.4% |
| HEATHROW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKE MARY | 713 | 18.9% | 81.0% |
| CHOICES IN LEARNING CHARTER WINTER SPRINGS | 685 | 17.7% | 88.8% |
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 DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Johns County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.8% | #167 of 2,136 | #10 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #191 of 2,149 ▼ 80 | #10 of 27 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #231 of 2,149 ▼ 59 | #12 of 27 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,090 | #139 of 2,267 | #11 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #904 of 2,077 | #12 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.0% | #430 of 2,108 | #1 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.7% | #1,977 of 2,188 | #11 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +44.8% | #69 of 621 | #4 of 8 |
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
1,090
+258 (+31%) vs 2020
+5% since 2010-11, when it was 1,041
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 1,090 | 70.4 | 15.5:1 | 22% (237) |
| 2023-24 | 1,020 | 64 | 15.9:1 | 18% (179) |
| 2022-23 | 959 | 64 | 15.0:1 | 13% (125) |
| 2020-21 | 832 | 55 | 15.1:1 | 14% (120) |
| 2017-18 | 753 | 49 | 15.4:1 | 13% (97) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 34 | 16.6:1 | 12% (67) |
| 2010-11 | 1,041 | 66 | 15.8:1 | 6% (65) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public elementary school in SAINT JOHNS, Florida. It reported 1,090 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 604 students for elementary schools in Florida.
ST. JOHNS is the district for DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It has 53 schools and 52,383 students.
About 50% of the student body at DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White. Other students are 21% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 4% Black. By comparison, St. Johns County residents are about 79% White. A diversity index of 67% means there is a 67% chance two randomly chosen students at DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
On staff are 70.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.5:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida is 17.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 22% of students at DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 21% average for public schools in St. Johns County.
DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 90% of Florida public elementary schools.
Compared with Florida schools that have similar shares of low-income students, DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's results are 9.5 points above predicted: 79.8% against 70.3%.
The school is in St. Johns County, where median household income comes to about $109,839, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. St. Johns County counts 68 public schools with about 52,895 students.
FRUIT COVE MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 1.5 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. By average proficiency, DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 5th among 9 schools close by.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 31%.
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St. Johns County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
306,934
Census ACS
Median income
$109,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
52,895 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ST. JOHNS
- TOCOI CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,616 students
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,479 students
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,214 students
- ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,177 students
- BARTRAM TRAIL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- MILL CREEK ACADEMYElementary · 1,983 students
Other schools in SAINT JOHNS
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,479 students
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,214 students
- BARTRAM TRAIL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- LIBERTY PINES ACADEMYElementary · 1,795 students
- PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMYElementary · 1,473 students
- SWITZERLAND POINT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,282 students
Nearby schools
- FRUIT COVE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,157
- PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY1.8 mi · 1,473
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOL1.8 mi · 2,479
- LIBERTY PINES ACADEMY2.4 mi · 1,795
- FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMY2.6 mi · 1,964
- JULINGTON CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 923
Frequently asked questions
About DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,090 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.5:1 students per teacher at DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 50% White, 16% Hispanic, 4% Black, 21% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ST. JOHNS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.