DUVAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AT BAYMEADOWS

Located at 7510 BAYMEADOWS WAY, in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, DUVAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AT BAYMEADOWS is a small senior high that enrolls 749 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within DUVAL. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.

Across the 206 schools in DUVAL (131,562 students total), DUVAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AT BAYMEADOWS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, DUVAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AT BAYMEADOWS logs that the most-represented group is White (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 34% Hispanic, 20% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

On the resource side, DUVAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AT BAYMEADOWS lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at DUVAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AT BAYMEADOWS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, DUVAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AT BAYMEADOWS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Duval County indicate 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 DUVAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AT BAYMEADOWS is one.

The closest other public school is DUVAL CHARTER AT BAYMEADOWS, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DUVAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AT BAYMEADOWS comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. DUVAL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL AT BAYMEADOWS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 67%: 449 students in 2018 compared to 749 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 14% to 34%.

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