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What's something JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
586
Elementary
DISTRICT 952 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. JOHNS·NCES 120174001918
JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
420 N ORANGE ST, ST AUGUSTINE, FL 32084 · (904) 547-3860 · St. Johns County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
416 students
DISTRICT 28% · 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 | 76 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
55.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
66.5%
FL avg 58.9% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.1% | 66.5% |
| 2023-24 | 52.6% | 67.2% |
% 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
59.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (59.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 586 | 71.0% | 59.0% |
| BEACHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DAYTONA BEACH | 618 | 71.7% | 54.1% |
| CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PANAMA CITY | 622 | 67.2% | 55.2% |
| OAK PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TITUSVILLE | 473 | 68.5% | 44.8% |
| MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BROOKSVILLE | 671 | 67.8% | 48.1% |
| COQUINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TITUSVILLE | 466 | 70.2% | 51.8% |
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 JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Johns County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #918 of 2,136 | #26 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #799 of 2,149 ▼ 153 | #25 of 27 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #1,057 of 2,149 ▼ 21 | #26 of 27 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #1,080 of 2,267 | #24 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #76 of 2,077 | #1 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.4% | #466 of 2,108 | #2 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.0% | #422 of 2,188 | #2 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.9% | #294 of 621 | #7 of 8 |
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
586
+117 (+25%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 825
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 586 | 47 | 12.5:1 | 71% (416) |
| 2023-24 | 532 | 45 | 11.8:1 | 72% (385) |
| 2022-23 | 504 | 41.7 | 12.1:1 | 67% (338) |
| 2020-21 | 469 | 40 | 11.7:1 | 74% (345) |
| 2017-18 | 519 | 42 | 12.4:1 | 71% (366) |
| 2015-16 | 615 | 52 | 11.8:1 | 79% (483) |
| 2010-11 | 628 | 48 | 13.1:1 | 76% (477) |
| 2000-01 | 750 | 64 | 11.7:1 | 66% (497) |
| 1990-91 | 825 | 56 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students in ST AUGUSTINE, Florida, attend JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school. Enrollment totals 586 students across pre-K through 5.
ST. JOHNS runs JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL along with 52 other schools, enrolling 52,383 students in total.
No group is above 50% at JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; the largest is White, at 49%. The school is also 26% Black, 13% Hispanic, and 11% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 79%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 66%.
JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reported 47 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 12.5:1. Elementary schools in Florida have an average ratio of 17.5:1. Roughly 71% of students at JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in St. Johns County average 21%.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is +13.4 points: 59.0% actual, 45.6% predicted.
For St. Johns County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $109,839, about 51% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 68 public schools in the county, enrolling about 52,895, JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL among them.
R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits about 0.4 miles from JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 62.0%, higher than JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 59.0%.
In the federal locale system, JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Small, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment figures show a rise of 117 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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St. Johns County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
306,934
Census ACS
Median income
$109,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
52,895 students
Quick facts
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Other schools in ST. JOHNS
- TOCOI CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,616 students
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,479 students
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,214 students
- ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,177 students
- BARTRAM TRAIL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- MILL CREEK ACADEMYElementary · 1,983 students
Other schools in ST AUGUSTINE
- MILL CREEK ACADEMYElementary · 1,983 students
- PINE ISLAND ACADEMYElementary · 1,972 students
- ST. AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,717 students
- PACETTI BAY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,481 students
- PEDRO MENENDEZ HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,403 students
- LAKESIDE ACADEMYElementary · 1,356 students
Nearby schools
- R J MURRAY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 742
- CROOKSHANK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 705
- THE EVELYN HAMBLEN CENTER1.2 mi · 48
- GAINES ALTERNATIVE AT HAMBLEN1.2 mi · 65
- OSCEOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 639
- KETTERLINUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 405
Frequently asked questions
About JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 586 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 49% White, 13% Hispanic, 26% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
JAMES A. WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ST. JOHNS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.