PALM VALLEY ACADEMY

Located at 700 BOBCAT LN, in PONTE VEDRA, Florida, PALM VALLEY ACADEMY is a sizable elementary school that caters to 1,408 students (grades K through 8), part of ST. JOHNS. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 133% bigger than typical.

ST. JOHNS comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 52,383 students; PALM VALLEY ACADEMY is among them.

On demographics, PALM VALLEY ACADEMY records that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, PALM VALLEY ACADEMY has 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 7% of students at PALM VALLEY ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, St. Johns County runs at roughly 21%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, PALM VALLEY ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.9%, the actual is 85.1%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Across the wider county, St. Johns County reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,839 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. PALM VALLEY ACADEMY is one of 68 public schools in St. Johns County (combined enrollment of about 52,895 students).

The closest other public school is PONTE VEDRA HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.9 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PALM VALLEY ACADEMY at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 80.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

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