GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY, a substantial elementary school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, run under DUVAL, hosts 1,068 students, covering grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 77% larger than typical.

Within DUVAL, which oversees 206 schools and 131,562 students, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder breaks down as 15% White, 10% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Duval County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Duval County (around 47%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of -13.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Duval County) logs that 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%. GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY is one of 220 public schools in Duval County (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students).

The closest other public school is ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY 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. GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY's enrollment has increased 32% since 2018, when it stood at 807 (now 1,068). Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 71% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 807.0:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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