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What advice would you give to incoming students at KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
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Enrollment
676
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048003844
KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2281 KERNAN BLVD S, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32246 · (904) 220-1310 · Duval County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL676 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
39%
264 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 115 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 130 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (115) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (108).
Student demographics
74%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
61.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +3.7pp since 2023
Math
74.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +7.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.4% | 74.2% |
| 2023-24 | 57.7% | 66.9% |
% 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
65.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (65.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 676 | 39.1% | 65.1% |
| ALLAMANDA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BEACH GARDENS | 634 | 41.6% | 65.7% |
| DR N H JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 789 | 42.1% | 78.8% |
| HIDDEN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GAINESVILLE | 694 | 35.0% | 70.0% |
| PALM BEACH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PALM BEACH GARDENS | 712 | 42.7% | 73.0% |
| ELBRIDGE GALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WELLINGTON | 842 | 35.9% | 77.0% |
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 KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.1% | #639 of 2,136 | #25 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.2% | #479 of 2,149 ▲ 179 | #20 of 122 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.4% | #772 of 2,149 ▲ 46 | #29 of 122 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 676 | #794 of 2,267 | #35 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #1,263 of 2,077 | #37 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.2% | #26 of 2,108 | #5 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 39.1% | #1,612 of 2,188 | #101 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.6% | #1,140 of 1,374 | #68 of 80 |
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
676
+20 (+3%) vs 2020
-17% since 2010-11, when it was 819
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 676 | 41 | 16.5:1 | 39% (264) |
| 2023-24 | 638 | 42 | 15.2:1 | 41% (263) |
| 2022-23 | 646 | 40 | 16.1:1 | 41% (268) |
| 2020-21 | 656 | 42 | 15.6:1 | 43% (280) |
| 2017-18 | 716 | 48 | 14.9:1 | 45% (321) |
| 2015-16 | 684 | 42 | 16.3:1 | 44% (304) |
| 2010-11 | 819 | 57 | 14.4:1 | 42% (345) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school serving families in JACKSONVILLE, Florida. It covers kindergarten through 5, with a total enrollment of 676 students.
Enrollment across the 206 schools in DUVAL totals 131,562 students.
White students are the largest group at KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 37% of enrollment. The remaining shares are 25% Hispanic, 22% Black, 8% multiracial, and 8% Asian. Duval County as a whole is about 51% White, so the school's share is lower. The chance that two students picked at random at KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 74%.
The count of teachers at KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 41 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 16.5:1. Among elementary schools in Florida, the typical ratio is 17.5:1. The school counts 264 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 39%. Public schools in Duval County average 47%.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 3.5 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 65.1% actual, 61.6% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Florida.
Census estimates describe Duval County this way: median household income is about $71,277, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 220 public schools in Duval County, with a combined enrollment of about 141,209.
The next-closest public school is KERNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On proficiency, KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is ahead of the 63.1% nearby average, ranking 4th of 7.
NCES describes the area around KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 3%, from 656 to 676.
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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
- KERNAN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,086
- ABESS PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 509
- LANDMARK MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 876
- DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT COASTAL1.4 mi · 1,082
- AMIKIDS JACKSONVILLE1.6 mi · 23
- ALDEN ROAD EXCEP. STUDENT CENTER1.9 mi · 177
Frequently asked questions
About KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 676 students in grades KG-05.
Is KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.5:1 students per teacher at KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 37% White, 25% Hispanic, 22% Black, 8% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
KERNAN TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of DUVAL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.