DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE

As a big elementary campus in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE teaches 1,064 students from grades K through 8, overseen by DUVAL. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 76% bigger than typical.

DUVAL runs 206 schools in total, collectively educating 131,562 students. DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE is one of those campuses.

Demographically, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE lists that the most-represented group is White (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 26% Black, 26% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Duval County as a whole is about 51% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Duval County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 56.4%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, Duval County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,277 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE is one of 220 public schools in Duval County (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students).

The closest other public school is GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ARTS, roughly 1.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE. On composite proficiency, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE's enrollment has climbed 24% since 2018, when it stood at 858 (now 1,064). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 15% to 26%.

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