DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY

Located at 100 SCHOLARS WAY, in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY is a cozy elementary-level community that teaches 501 students (grades K through 8), run under DUVAL.

Within DUVAL, which oversees 206 schools and 131,562 students, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY shows that 48% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 34% Hispanic, 12% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Duval County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 84% 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.

After controlling for student poverty, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.0%, the actual is 38.7%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the broader community, Duval County reports that median household income runs about $71,277, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Duval County runs 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), of which DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY is one.

The closest other public school is WOODLAND ACRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 49.8%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY's enrollment has edged down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 585 (now 501). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 68% to 48% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 585.0:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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