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JULIA LANDON COLLEGE PREPARATORY & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT S
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JULIA LANDON COLLEGE PREPARATORY & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT S
JULIA LANDON COLLEGE PREPARATORY & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT S is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, overseen by DUVAL. The school teaches 895 students in grades 6 through 8.
JULIA LANDON COLLEGE PREPARATORY & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT S is one of 206 schools operated by DUVAL, a district that serves 131,562 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, JULIA LANDON COLLEGE PREPARATORY & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT S logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 26% Asian, 12% Black, 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting JULIA LANDON COLLEGE PREPARATORY & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT S higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 14% of students at JULIA LANDON COLLEGE PREPARATORY & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Duval County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JULIA LANDON COLLEGE PREPARATORY & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.0%, the actual is 84.2%, a residual of +10.3 points.
Around the school, Duval County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,277 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Duval County runs 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), of which JULIA LANDON COLLEGE PREPARATORY & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT S is one.
Nearest neighbor: DOUGLAS ANDERSON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JULIA LANDON COLLEGE PREPARATORY & LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 64.0%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 18%: 757 students in 2018 compared to 895 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 12% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 today.
On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Duval County at a glance
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