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What's something DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
501
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048007909
DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY
100 SCHOLARS WAY, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32216 · (904) 724-1536 · Duval County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL501 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% of Florida public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
18.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
422 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 50 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 8% larger than its 8th grade class (50).
Student demographics
64%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
40.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.4pp since 2023
Math
39.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +11.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.5% | 39.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.1% | 27.2% |
% 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
38.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY
DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY's state test result (38.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY this school | 501 | 84.2% | 38.7% |
| INWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WINTER HAVEN | 423 | 82.3% | 37.0% |
| EMMA E. BOOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SARASOTA | 451 | 86.3% | 49.0% |
| BETHUNE ACADEMY HAINES CITY | 430 | 77.9% | 52.7% |
| GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAKELAND | 431 | 80.7% | 43.4% |
| LAKE WESTON ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 415 | 79.5% | 51.2% |
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 DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.7% | #1,866 of 2,136 | #83 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,949 of 2,149 ▲ 154 | #101 of 122 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.5% | #1,755 of 2,149 ▲ 84 | #74 of 122 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 501 | #1,416 of 2,267 | #55 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #1,770 of 2,077 | #72 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.0% | #632 of 2,108 | #63 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.2% | #75 of 2,188 | #10 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.4% | #727 of 1,374 | #47 of 80 |
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
501
-71 (-12%) vs 2020
-14% since 2010-11, when it was 585
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 286.0:1
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 | 501 | 27 | 18.6:1 | 84% (422) |
| 2023-24 | 473 | N/A | N/A | 72% (341) |
| 2022-23 | 547 | 17 | 32.2:1 | 100% (547) |
| 2020-21 | 572 | 2 | 286.0:1 | 67% (385) |
| 2017-18 | 585 | 1 | 585.0:1 | 26% (154) |
| 2015-16 | 559 | N/A | N/A | 13% (73) |
| 2010-11 | 585 | 41 | 14.3:1 | 50% (292) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY.
About DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY
DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY is a small elementary school for students in JACKSONVILLE, Florida. It reports enrollment of 501 students in kindergarten through 8.
A total of 206 schools make up DUVAL, with 131,562 students enrolled.
Black students make up 48% of enrollment at DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY, the largest share of any group. Next come 34% Hispanic, 12% White, and 3% multiracial. That compares with about 29% Black among all Duval County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 64%.
A staff of 27 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 18.6:1. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average ratio is 17.5:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 84%. Compared with the 47% average for public schools in Duval County, the school's rate is higher.
Among Florida public elementary schools, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY outscored 22%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
In Florida, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 38.7% actual against a predicted 39.0%.
Census data for Duval County show the median household earns about $71,277 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Counting DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY, Duval County has 220 public schools.
WOODLAND ACRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits about 0.7 miles from DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY is 5th among 8 schools close by.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Federal records list DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY as a charter school.
The school shrank from 572 students in 2020-21 to 501 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 286.0:1 to 18.6:1.
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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 JACKSONVILLE
- DIGITAL ACADEMY OF FLORIDACombined · 6,069 students
- ATLANTIC COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,887 students
- SANDALWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,627 students
- MANDARIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,343 students
- FIRST COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,098 students
- ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,896 students
Nearby schools
- WOODLAND ACRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 495
- HOLIDAY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 460
- BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY1.0 mi · 463
- SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 519
- RIVER CITY SCIENCE ACADEMY1.6 mi · 991
- LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 243
Frequently asked questions
About DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMYHow many students attend DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY?
DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY enrolls approximately 501 students in grades KG-08.
Is DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY is approximately 18.6:1 (27 FTE teachers).
How diverse is DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY?
DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY reports a student body of 12% White, 34% Hispanic, 48% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY public or private?
DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by DUVAL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.