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What's the most underrated thing about GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,068
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048007658
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY
8985 LONE STAR RD, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32211 · (904) 551-7104 · Duval County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,068 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Florida public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
692 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 106 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 103 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 108 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 118 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 132 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 121 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 131 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 149 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 29% smaller than its 8th grade class (149).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
34.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
38.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.1% | 38.4% |
| 2023-24 | 33.7% | 37.9% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
35.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY's state test result (35.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY this school | 1,068 | 64.8% | 35.0% |
| BERKSHIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 1,076 | 62.6% | 47.4% |
| LEHIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEHIGH ACRES | 1,207 | 65.9% | 39.9% |
| CHOLEE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GREENACRES | 976 | 64.7% | 36.6% |
| MATER PALMS ACADEMY HIALEAH GARDENS | 866 | 63.0% | 55.7% |
| MIRROR LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEHIGH ACRES | 1,237 | 65.0% | 52.1% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #1,982 of 2,136 | #99 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.4% | #1,965 of 2,149 ▼ 70 | #104 of 122 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.1% | #1,970 of 2,149 ▼ 72 | #92 of 122 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,068 | #153 of 2,267 | #6 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #1,801 of 2,077 | #79 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.9% | #1,518 of 2,108 | #97 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.8% | #698 of 2,188 | #35 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +32.3% | #106 of 621 | #8 of 33 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,068
-30 (-3%) vs 2020
+184% since 2010-11, when it was 376
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 109.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,068 | 57 | 18.7:1 | 65% (692) |
| 2023-24 | 1,075 | N/A | N/A | 64% (685) |
| 2022-23 | 1,083 | 51 | 21.2:1 | 65% (706) |
| 2020-21 | 1,098 | 10 | 109.8:1 | 66% (728) |
| 2017-18 | 807 | 1 | 807.0:1 | 69% (560) |
| 2015-16 | 682 | N/A | N/A | 5% (37) |
| 2010-11 | 376 | 38 | 9.9:1 | 55% (208) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY.
About GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY is a large elementary school in DUVAL, located in JACKSONVILLE, Florida. It reports enrollment of 1,068 students in kindergarten through 8. Across elementary schools in Florida, the average enrollment is about 604.
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY is one school in DUVAL, a system of 206 schools with 131,562 students.
Hispanic students are 71% of those enrolled at GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY. Next come 15% White, 10% Black, and 2% multiracial. That compares with about 12% Hispanic among all Duval County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 46%.
Its staff includes 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 18.7 students per teacher. Compared with the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida, this school's ratio is higher. Roughly 65% of students at GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY can receive free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Duval County is 47%.
Among Florida public elementary schools, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY outscored 5%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY is 13.7 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (35.0% versus 48.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Florida.
For the population of Duval County, median household income comes to about $71,277, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Duval County counts 220 public schools with about 141,209 students.
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY's closest public school neighbor is ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY is 5th of 7 on proficiency.
Locale data from NCES put GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large). NCES lists GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY as a charter school.
Enrollment decreased 3% over 4 years, reaching 1,068 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 109.8:1 to 18.7:1.
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Duval County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,023,153
Census ACS
Median income
$71,277
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
220
141,209 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DUVAL
- ATLANTIC COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,887 students
- SANDALWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,627 students
- MANDARIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,343 students
- DUNCAN U. FLETCHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,184 students
- FIRST COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,098 students
- ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,896 students
Other schools in JACKSONVILLE
- DIGITAL ACADEMY OF FLORIDACombined · 6,069 students
- ATLANTIC COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,887 students
- SANDALWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,627 students
- MANDARIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,343 students
- FIRST COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,098 students
- ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,896 students
Nearby schools
- ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 684
- LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 243
- PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 322
- MERRILL ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 363
- TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,539
- SEACOAST CHARTER ACADEMY1.1 mi · 444
Frequently asked questions
About GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERYWhat is the total enrollment at GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY?
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY enrolls approximately 1,068 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY serve?
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY is approximately 18.7:1 (57 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY?
Student demographics at GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY are roughly 15% White, 71% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY in?
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY is part of DUVAL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.