DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE

As a well-populated elementary-level community in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE hosts 938 students from grades K through 8, operated by DUVAL. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE sits 55% larger than that benchmark.

Within DUVAL, which oversees 206 schools and 131,562 students, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE reports that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 31% Hispanic, 11% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.5%; actual is 34.3%, a gap of -21.1 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Duval County indicate median household earnings sit near $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 SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE is one.

Nearest neighbor: WESTVIEW K-8, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 38.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area. DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT WESTSIDE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 11%: 845 students in 2018 compared to 938 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 18% to 31% over that span.

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