NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY

NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY is a close-knit elementary campus in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, run under DUVAL. The school hosts 433 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

DUVAL runs 206 schools in total, collectively educating 131,562 students. NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (87%); the rest looks like 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 85% of students at NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Duval County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 25.9%, a residual of -12.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Duval County put median household income runs about $71,277, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Duval County's 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

THE BRIDGE TO SUCCESS ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 35.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTHWESTERN LEGENDS ELEMENTARY has increased 12%, going from 386 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 98% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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