JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL

JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL, a small middle-grades school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, overseen by DUVAL, serves 489 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 38% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 794 students.

Across the 206 schools in DUVAL (131,562 students total), JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 27% White, 23% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 58% of students at JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Duval County (around 47%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.0%.

Around the school, census data for Duval County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,277 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is DUVAL MYCROSCHOOL OF INTEGRATED ACADEMICS AND TECHNOLOGIES, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOSEPH STILWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL has ticked down 36%, going from 769 students in 2018 to 489 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 13% to 23%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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