JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL

JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as an intimate middle school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, part of DUVAL. Current enrollment sits at 530 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

DUVAL comprises 206 schools with combined enrollment of 131,562 students; JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL records that nearly all students (86%) are Black. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Hispanic, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Duval County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Duval County) shows that median household earnings sit near $71,277, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Duval County runs 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), of which JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

JEAN RIBAULT HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 25%: 706 students in 2018 compared to 530 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 93% to 86%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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