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What's one thing MILL CREEK ACADEMY gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,983
Elementary
DISTRICT 952 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. JOHNS·NCES 120174002900
MILL CREEK ACADEMY
3750 INTERNATIONAL GOLF PKWY, ST AUGUSTINE, FL 32092 · (904) 547-3720 · St. Johns County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL1,983 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
111 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
456 students
DISTRICT 28% · 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 | 187 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 200 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 174 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 206 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 225 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 280 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 222 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 260 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 229 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (187) is 18% smaller than its 8th grade class (229).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
71.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.4pp since 2023
Math
78.7%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.0% | 78.7% |
| 2023-24 | 65.6% | 77.5% |
% 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
72.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 MILL CREEK ACADEMY
MILL CREEK ACADEMY's state test result (72.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILL CREEK ACADEMY this school | 1,983 | 23.0% | 72.6% |
| VIERA CHARTER SCHOOL VIERA | 1,532 | 24.0% | 76.5% |
| NORMAN S. EDELCUP/SUNNY ISLES BEACH K-8 SUNNY ISLES BEACH | 1,729 | 26.9% | 71.4% |
| B.D. GULLETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRADENTON | 1,314 | 21.3% | 74.7% |
| CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH SPRING HILL | 1,456 | 28.4% | 83.1% |
| MADEIRA BEACH FUNDAMENTAL K-8 MADEIRA BEACH | 1,306 | 20.4% | 82.9% |
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 MILL CREEK ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Johns County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #363 of 2,136 | #19 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.7% | #328 of 2,149 ▼ 31 | #15 of 27 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #407 of 2,149 ▲ 104 | #19 of 27 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,983 | #3 of 2,267 | #1 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.9:1 | #1,662 of 2,077 | #26 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.2% | #1,120 of 2,108 | #10 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.0% | #1,954 of 2,188 | #10 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +151.6% | #7 of 621 | #1 of 8 |
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
1,983
+511 (+35%) vs 2020
+287% since 2000-01, when it was 513
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 17.7:1
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 | 1,983 | 111 | 17.9:1 | 23% (456) |
| 2023-24 | 1,988 | 110 | 18.1:1 | 18% (367) |
| 2022-23 | 1,893 | 110 | 17.2:1 | 18% (341) |
| 2020-21 | 1,472 | 83 | 17.7:1 | 16% (232) |
| 2017-18 | 788 | 49 | 16.1:1 | 15% (116) |
| 2015-16 | 1,097 | 74 | 14.8:1 | 24% (266) |
| 2010-11 | 1,035 | 69 | 15.0:1 | 26% (265) |
| 2000-01 | 513 | 30 | 17.1:1 | 41% (209) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MILL CREEK ACADEMY.
About MILL CREEK ACADEMY
MILL CREEK ACADEMY, located in ST AUGUSTINE, Florida, is a large elementary school. It enrolls 1,983 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 8. The school is 228% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Florida.
MILL CREEK ACADEMY falls under ST. JOHNS, which has 53 schools enrolling 52,383 students.
The student body at MILL CREEK ACADEMY is 64% White. It is also 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Black, and 4% Asian. St. Johns County's residents are about 79% White, 16 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 55, compared with 70 nationally.
MILL CREEK ACADEMY reported 111 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 17.9:1. It is about the same as the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. By family income, 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in St. Johns County average a similar 21%.
Test results at MILL CREEK ACADEMY are 3.0 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (72.6% actual, 69.7% predicted).
The school's county is St. Johns County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $109,839 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 51% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. MILL CREEK ACADEMY shares St. Johns County with 67 other public schools.
MILL CREEK ACADEMY's nearest public school is TOCOI CREEK HIGH SCHOOL (about 0.3 miles). In all, 4 other public schools sit within five miles of MILL CREEK ACADEMY. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, MILL CREEK ACADEMY is 4th on average proficiency.
Federal data place MILL CREEK ACADEMY in the Town: Fringe locale, which means it is in a town close to an urbanized area.
Enrollment figures show a increase of 511 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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St. Johns County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
306,934
Census ACS
Median income
$109,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
52,895 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ST. JOHNS
- TOCOI CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,616 students
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,479 students
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,214 students
- ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,177 students
- BARTRAM TRAIL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- PINE ISLAND ACADEMYElementary · 1,972 students
Other schools in ST AUGUSTINE
- PINE ISLAND ACADEMYElementary · 1,972 students
- ST. AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,717 students
- PACETTI BAY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,481 students
- PEDRO MENENDEZ HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,403 students
- LAKESIDE ACADEMYElementary · 1,356 students
- WARDS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,156 students
Other Mill Creek Academy schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mill Creek Academy. MILL CREEK ACADEMY is the largest of the 3.
- Mill Creek AcademyWaukesha, WI · 324 students
- Mill Creek AcademyWILLIAMSBURG, MI · 233 students
Nearby schools
- TOCOI CREEK HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 2,616
- PACETTI BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 1,481
- WARDS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 1,156
- PICOLATA CROSSING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.1 mi · 1,048
- ST. JOHNS COMMUNITY CAMPUS6.2 mi · 80
- THERAPEUTIC LEARNING CENTER6.3 mi · 19
Frequently asked questions
About MILL CREEK ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at MILL CREEK ACADEMY?
MILL CREEK ACADEMY enrolls approximately 1,983 students in grades KG-08.
Is MILL CREEK ACADEMY an elementary, middle, or high school?
MILL CREEK ACADEMY is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at MILL CREEK ACADEMY?
Approximately 17.9:1 students per teacher at MILL CREEK ACADEMY.
What is the student diversity at MILL CREEK ACADEMY?
Student demographics at MILL CREEK ACADEMY are roughly 64% White, 17% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is MILL CREEK ACADEMY in?
MILL CREEK ACADEMY is part of ST. JOHNS.
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