Enrollment
322
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048000734
PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
1709 LANSDOWNE DR, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32211 · (904) 720-1670 · Duval County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL322 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Florida public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
23.0:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
201 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 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
30.2%
FL avg 56.7% . -1.3pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +10.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.2% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.5% | 30.4% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
31.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (31.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 322 | 62.4% | 31.9% |
| ORTEGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 342 | 59.6% | 54.5% |
| LAKE LUCINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 331 | 59.5% | 55.2% |
| BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 367 | 61.3% | 54.2% |
| KILLARNEY ELEMENTARY WINTER PARK | 344 | 67.4% | 49.4% |
| MERRILL ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 363 | 55.1% | N/A |
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 PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #2,036 of 2,136 | #104 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #1,892 of 2,149 ▲ 171 | #96 of 122 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #2,060 of 2,149 ▼ 83 | #108 of 122 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 322 | #1,946 of 2,267 | #99 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.0:1 | #2,040 of 2,077 | #114 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.6% | #309 of 2,108 | #41 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.4% | #811 of 2,188 | #43 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.1% | #1,115 of 1,374 | #67 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
322
+43 (+15%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 598
Student : Teacher
23.0:1
was 19.9:1
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 | 322 | 14 | 23.0:1 | 62% (201) |
| 2023-24 | 319 | 14 | 22.8:1 | 63% (200) |
| 2022-23 | 276 | 15 | 18.4:1 | 73% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 279 | 14 | 19.9:1 | 71% (199) |
| 2017-18 | 343 | 24 | 14.3:1 | 72% (246) |
| 2015-16 | 419 | 30 | 14.0:1 | 72% (303) |
| 2010-11 | 464 | 27 | 17.2:1 | 64% (299) |
| 2000-01 | 577 | 29 | 19.9:1 | 56% (324) |
| 1990-91 | 598 | 30 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public low-enrollment elementary school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 5, with 322 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Florida is roughly 604 students; this school is 47% smaller than that.
DUVAL enrolls 131,562 students, and its 206 schools include PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
At PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the largest share of students is Black, at 47%. Next come 23% Hispanic, 19% White, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 29% Black. PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's diversity index is 69%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal data list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers at PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 23.0:1. That is higher than the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. The lunch program counts 62% of students at PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Duval County is 47%.
The allk12 Grade for PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is F. Compared with Florida public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 2% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL would score about 49.9%. It scores 31.9%, a bottom-10% result among Florida schools on BeatsExpectations.
Among Duval County residents, 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. PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 220 public schools in the county.
The nearest other public school, ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 6th of 7 nearby schools with test data.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL climbed 15% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 279 to 322 students. Its ratio of students to teachers was 19.9:1 in 2020-21, and 23.0:1 in 2024-25.
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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
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- ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,896 students
Nearby schools
- ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 684
- LONE STAR HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 243
- TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,539
- GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY DISCOVERY0.9 mi · 1,068
- ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 314
- MERRILL ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 363
Frequently asked questions
About PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 322 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 23.0:1 (14 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 19% White, 23% Hispanic, 47% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of DUVAL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.