Enrollment
342
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048000637
ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4010 BALTIC ST, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32210 · (904) 381-7460 · Duval County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL342 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
204 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
71%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
49.8%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.5pp since 2023
Math
62.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.8% | 62.9% |
| 2023-24 | 45.3% | 61.0% |
% 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
54.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (54.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 342 | 59.6% | 54.5% |
| LAKE LUCINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 331 | 59.5% | 55.2% |
| PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 322 | 62.4% | 31.9% |
| MERRILL ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 363 | 55.1% | N/A |
| BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 367 | 61.3% | 54.2% |
| SEMINOLE HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 375 | 57.3% | 48.2% |
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 ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #1,112 of 2,136 | #49 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.9% | #969 of 2,149 ▼ 62 | #43 of 122 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.8% | #1,317 of 2,149 ▲ 64 | #57 of 122 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 342 | #1,906 of 2,267 | #95 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.1:1 | #1,945 of 2,077 | #99 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.2% | #128 of 2,108 | #30 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.6% | #921 of 2,188 | #48 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.3% | #612 of 621 | #33 of 33 |
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
342
+36 (+12%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 269
Student : Teacher
20.1:1
was 21.9:1
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 | 342 | 17 | 20.1:1 | 60% (204) |
| 2023-24 | 330 | 19 | 17.4:1 | 65% (213) |
| 2022-23 | 359 | 19 | 18.9:1 | 67% (239) |
| 2020-21 | 306 | 14 | 21.9:1 | 62% (190) |
| 2017-18 | 341 | 22 | 15.5:1 | 64% (217) |
| 2015-16 | 398 | 28 | 14.2:1 | 58% (230) |
| 2010-11 | 336 | 21 | 16.0:1 | 65% (220) |
| 2000-01 | 362 | 16 | 22.6:1 | 49% (179) |
| 1990-91 | 269 | 12 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, attend ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small elementary school. It enrolled 342 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 43% lower than the average for elementary schools in Florida, which is about 604.
DUVAL enrolls 131,562 students, and its 206 schools include ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has no majority group; Black students are the largest, at 42%. The remaining students are 28% Hispanic, 17% White, 10% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Among people living in Duval County, the Black share is about 29%. Pick two students at random and there is a 71% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 20.1:1 comes from the school's 17 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has more students per teacher than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The lunch program counts 60% of students at ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Duval County is 47%.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 51.3% for ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The school posts 54.5%, 3.2 points above the prediction.
Census estimates describe Duval County this way: the median household income is $71,277, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Duval County has 219 other public schools.
JOHN STOCKTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located about 1.1 miles from ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The five-mile area around ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 55.5%, higher than ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's 54.5%.
Its location is classified as City: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment has grown by 36 students since 2020-21, to 342. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 21.9:1 to 20.1:1.
Parents and students can post about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
Other Ortega Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Ortega Elementary. ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Ortega ElementaryPacifica, CA · 404 students
- Ortega Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 242 students
Nearby schools
- JOHN STOCKTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 464
- BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 367
- FISHWEIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 442
- LAKE SHORE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 748
- VENETIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 372
- RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL2.2 mi · 1,638
Frequently asked questions
About ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 342 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.1:1.
What is the student diversity at ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 17% White, 28% Hispanic, 42% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by DUVAL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.