GREGORY DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GREGORY DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, part of DUVAL, with 521 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

GREGORY DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 206 schools operated by DUVAL, a district that educates 131,562 students overall.

On the student-mix side, GREGORY DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 19% Hispanic, 15% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Duval County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GREGORY DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Duval County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,277 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Duval County's 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), GREGORY DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is FRANK H. PETERSON ACADEMIES, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREGORY DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, GREGORY DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. GREGORY DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 20% since 2018, when it stood at 648 (now 521). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 14% to 19%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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