GROVE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GROVE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in ORANGE PARK, Florida, one of the schools within CLAY, with 445 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 26% below typical.

CLAY runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 39,116 students. GROVE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, GROVE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 41% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 26% White, 23% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting GROVE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 77% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Clay County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GROVE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of -0.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Clay County) logs that median household income runs about $87,820, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. GROVE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 55 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 38,806 students).

The closest other public school is ORANGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GROVE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 469 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 46% to 41% across the same window.

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