FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of cozy scale in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, overseen by DUVAL, enrolling 442 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 604 students each, so FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 27% below that benchmark.

FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 206 schools operated by DUVAL, a district that teaches 131,562 students overall.

On the student-mix side, FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 26% Black, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Duval County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Duval County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.4%; this one delivers 73.3%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Duval County shows 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%. Across Duval County's 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RUTH N. UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 451 (now 442). Over the same period, the White share declined from 67% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.