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Enrollment
692
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048000694
HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY
1000 DEPAUL DR, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32218 · (904) 696-8754 · Duval County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL692 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
423 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 57 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 122 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 119 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 108 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (122) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
49%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
30.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.8pp since 2023
Math
49.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +13.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.1% | 49.2% |
| 2023-24 | 27.3% | 35.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY
HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY's state test result (34.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY this school | 692 | 61.1% | 34.6% |
| RENAISSANCE CHARTER SCHOOL AT CENTRAL PALM LAKE WORTH | 764 | 59.7% | 43.2% |
| PLUMOSA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS DELRAY BEACH | 826 | 61.1% | 60.2% |
| ORCHARD VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DELRAY BEACH | 679 | 63.8% | 44.8% |
| EAGLES NEST ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 625 | 65.3% | 33.1% |
| W. J. BRYAN ELEMENTARY NORTH MIAMI | 611 | 64.0% | 47.9% |
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 HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #1,992 of 2,136 | #100 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.2% | #1,601 of 2,149 ▲ 355 | #78 of 122 ▲ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.1% | #2,067 of 2,149 ▼ 6 | #110 of 122 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 692 | #731 of 2,267 | #34 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.2:1 | #1,731 of 2,077 | #67 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.6% | #1,419 of 2,108 | #94 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.1% | #864 of 2,188 | #46 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +51.4% | #54 of 621 | #5 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
692
+275 (+66%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 873
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
was 13.4:1
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 | 692 | 38 | 18.2:1 | 61% (423) |
| 2023-24 | 396 | 30 | 13.2:1 | 73% (288) |
| 2022-23 | 475 | 30 | 15.8:1 | 77% (368) |
| 2020-21 | 417 | 31 | 13.4:1 | 73% (304) |
| 2017-18 | 457 | 33 | 13.8:1 | 77% (352) |
| 2015-16 | 484 | 33 | 14.7:1 | 79% (381) |
| 2010-11 | 423 | 31 | 13.7:1 | 83% (351) |
| 2000-01 | 570 | 30 | 19.0:1 | 82% (467) |
| 1990-91 | 873 | 44 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY.
About HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY
HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY, located in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, is a mid-sized elementary school. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 692 students in 2024-25.
DUVAL enrolls 131,562 students in 206 schools, including HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY.
Of every 100 students at HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY, about 69 are Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 14% Hispanic, 10% White, and 5% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 29%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 49%.
There are 38 full-time-equivalent teachers at HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY, giving a ratio of 18.2:1. Elementary schools in Florida have an average ratio of 17.5:1. By family income, 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Duval County report 47%.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results, 34.6%, is 15.9 points below the 50.5% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of Florida schools.
In Duval County, home to about 1,023,153 people, the median household earns about $71,277 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Public schools in Duval County number 220, with about 141,209 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, SEASIDE CHARTER NORTH CAMPUS, is the closest to HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY. HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 34.6% average proficiency ranks 7th among 8 nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY is City: Large.
Federal data put enrollment at 417 in 2020-21 and 692 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. The number of students per teacher increased from 13.4 to 18.2 over 4 years.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- SEASIDE CHARTER NORTH CAMPUS0.4 mi · 496
- BISCAYNE HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 217
- PINE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 220
- HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 685
- SOMERSET ACADEMY-MIDDLE EAGLE CAMPUS1.5 mi · 177
- SOMERSET ACADEMY-ELEMENTARY EAGLE CAMPUS1.5 mi · 324
Frequently asked questions
About HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMYHow large is HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY?
HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY enrolls approximately 692 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY serve?
HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY?
Approximately 18.2:1 students per teacher at HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY.
What is the racial breakdown of students at HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY?
At HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 10% White, 14% Hispanic, 69% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY?
HIGHLANDS ESTATES ACADEMY is overseen by DUVAL in Duval County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.