LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL

LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a very small high school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, overseen by DUVAL. Current enrollment sits at 243 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 77% smaller than the state mean of about 1,035.

Within DUVAL, which oversees 206 schools and 131,562 students, LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 15% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Duval County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 40.5:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Duval County's rate of about 47%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Duval County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,277 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a city-core site. LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 45%: 168 students in 2018 compared to 243 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 25% to 15% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, members of the LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.