FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMY

Located at 1365 SHETLAND DR, in ST JOHNS, Florida, FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMY is a substantial elementary campus that hosts 1,964 students (grades K through 8), operated by ST. JOHNS. That puts it 225% larger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

ST. JOHNS runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 52,383 students. FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 17% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 111 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.5%; this one delivers 77.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (St. Johns County) reports that median household earnings sit near $109,839, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across St. Johns County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,895 students), FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

CUNNINGHAM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMY comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 79.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

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