LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL

LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a moderately sized middle-grades school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, operated by DUVAL. The school caters to 748 students in grades 6 through 8.

DUVAL runs 206 schools in total, collectively educating 131,562 students. LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black, at 65% of enrollment; the rest reads as 15% White, 14% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Duval County's rate of about 47%.

With demographic context factored in, LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.1%; this one delivers 36.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Duval County indicate median household income runs about $71,277, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Duval County's 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.5%.

LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 39%: 1,218 students in 2018 compared to 748 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 20% to 15% across the same window.

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