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Enrollment
656
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048000763
LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
13333 LANIER RD, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32226 · (904) 696-8758 · Duval County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL656 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
222 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 | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 114 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 131 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (131).
Student demographics
69%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
53.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.8pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.3% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 50.5% | 62.8% |
% 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
62.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (62.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 656 | 33.8% | 62.3% |
| BAY VISTA FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG | 574 | 36.1% | 76.4% |
| JAMES B. SANDERLIN K-8 ST PETERSBURG | 817 | 37.6% | 67.5% |
| VIRGINIA SHUMAN YOUNG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORT LAUDERDALE | 609 | 28.6% | 79.5% |
| SAN MATEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 520 | 39.6% | 60.8% |
| NEWBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWBERRY | 651 | 41.6% | 59.8% |
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 LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #758 of 2,136 | #29 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #773 of 2,149 ▲ 59 | #31 of 122 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #1,141 of 2,149 ▲ 1 | #49 of 122 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 656 | #848 of 2,267 | #36 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #1,879 of 2,077 | #90 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.4% | #255 of 2,108 | #40 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.8% | #1,731 of 2,188 | #105 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.8% | #580 of 1,374 | #39 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
656
-19 (-3%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 808
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 16.1:1
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 | 656 | 34 | 19.3:1 | 34% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 704 | 37 | 19.0:1 | 38% (265) |
| 2022-23 | 725 | 35 | 20.7:1 | 41% (294) |
| 2020-21 | 675 | 42 | 16.1:1 | 38% (254) |
| 2017-18 | 798 | 50 | 16.0:1 | 43% (343) |
| 2015-16 | 834 | 52 | 16.0:1 | 40% (337) |
| 2010-11 | 855 | 53 | 16.1:1 | 38% (325) |
| 2000-01 | 637 | 29 | 22.0:1 | 31% (196) |
| 1990-91 | 808 | 44 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, (ZIP code 32226). Total enrollment is 656 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5.
LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 206 schools in DUVAL, which enrolls 131,562 students in total.
About 41% of students at LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are White, the largest single group. Beyond that, enrollment is 33% Black, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The White share of the county population is higher, at 51%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 69%.
LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.3:1. The school's 19.3:1 compares with an average of 17.5:1 for elementary schools in Florida. The school has 34% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 47% average for public schools in Duval County is 13 points.
Among Florida public elementary schools, LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 52%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (62.3%) and its predicted rate (64.2%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Florida schools.
American Community Survey estimates for Duval County show that median household income comes to about $71,277, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county's public schools total 220, with about 141,209 students.
Measured in a straight line, FIRST COAST HIGH SCHOOL is about 1.3 miles from LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds 5 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 50.7%, lower than LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 62.3%.
Under the NCES locale system, LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is City: Large.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 656, from 675 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 16.1:1 to 19.3:1 over the same years.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
- FIRST COAST HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 2,098
- NEW BERLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,118
- OCEANWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 728
- OCEANWAY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 828
- SAN MATEO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.6 mi · 520
- BISCAYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.3 mi · 818
Frequently asked questions
About LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 656 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 19.3:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 41% White, 12% Hispanic, 33% Black, 2% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
LOUIS S. SHEFFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by DUVAL in Duval County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.