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Enrollment
980
Middle
DISTRICT 718 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048000705
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL
3276 NORMAN E THAGARD BLVD, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32254 · (904) 693-7600 · Duval County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL980 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
22.8:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
231 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 347 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 333 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 300 | 31% |
Student demographics
71%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
82.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.8pp since 2023
Math
81.4%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.4% | 81.4% |
| 2023-24 | 79.6% | 77.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
81.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 →
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JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (81.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 980 | 23.6% | 81.0% |
| BAK MIDDLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS WEST PALM BEACH | 1,246 | 19.7% | 94.3% |
| BENITO MIDDLE SCHOOL TAMPA | 903 | 28.7% | 66.2% |
| CORAL SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL CORAL SPRINGS | 980 | 29.8% | 64.8% |
| EMERALD COVE MIDDLE SCHOOL WELLINGTON | 1,221 | 29.2% | 68.9% |
| FARNELL MIDDLE SCHOOL TAMPA | 1,184 | 20.9% | 72.5% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #27 of 560 | #2 of 26 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.4% | #65 of 560 ▲ 9 | #2 of 26 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.4% | #25 of 560 ▲ 1 | #2 of 26 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 980 | #163 of 584 | #5 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.8:1 | #496 of 547 | #21 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.5% | #24 of 553 | #3 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.6% | #507 of 565 | #25 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.3% | #355 of 379 | #18 of 19 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
980
-37 (-4%) vs 2020
+45% since 1990-91, when it was 674
Student : Teacher
22.8:1
was 23.6:1
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 | 980 | 43 | 22.8:1 | 24% (231) |
| 2023-24 | 957 | 47 | 20.4:1 | 29% (276) |
| 2022-23 | 986 | 45 | 21.9:1 | 29% (287) |
| 2020-21 | 1,017 | 43 | 23.6:1 | 26% (265) |
| 2017-18 | 993 | 46 | 21.6:1 | 29% (285) |
| 2015-16 | 1,018 | 50 | 20.4:1 | 24% (241) |
| 2010-11 | 1,040 | 53 | 19.6:1 | 24% (250) |
| 2000-01 | 1,228 | 55 | 22.3:1 | 18% (216) |
| 1990-91 | 674 | 35 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL
In JACKSONVILLE, Florida, JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a mid-sized middle school. Enrollment totals 980 students across grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in Florida, the average enrollment is about 794.
DUVAL counts 131,562 students in its 206 schools, and JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of them.
About 41% of students at JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL are Black, the largest single group. Other reported shares: 30% White, 13% Asian, 9% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Duval County's residents are about 29% Black, 12 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are about 22.8 students; the school has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Florida, 19.6:1, is lower. There are 231 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 24% of enrollment. The average for public schools in Duval County is 47%.
The model predicts 69.4% for a school in Florida with JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 81.0%.
In the wider Duval County area, the median household earns about $71,277 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL shares Duval County with 219 other public schools.
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from PALM AVENUE EXCEP. STUDENT CENTER, its nearest public school. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL's average proficiency of 81.0% compares with 37.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 1,017 to 980, a 4% decline.
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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
- PALM AVENUE EXCEP. STUDENT CENTER0.2 mi · 210
- PAXON SCHOOL/ADVANCED STUDIES0.2 mi · 1,278
- BILTMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 206
- ANNIE R. MORGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 192
- REYNOLDS LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 158
- KIPP JACKSONVILLE K-121.1 mi · 1,452
Frequently asked questions
About JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 980 students in grades 06-08.
Is JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 22.8:1 students per teacher at JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 30% White, 9% Hispanic, 41% Black, 13% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLEGE PREPARATORY MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of DUVAL.
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