PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a primary school of low-enrollment scale in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, operated by DUVAL, enrolling 322 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 47% below the state mean of about 604.

Across the 206 schools in DUVAL (131,562 students total), PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 23% Hispanic, 19% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Duval County's rate of about 47%.

After controlling for student poverty, PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.9%; PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 31.9%, -18.0 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Duval County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,277 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Duval County's 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ARLINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.4%.

PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 6%, going from 343 students in 2018 to 322 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 11% to 23%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 today.

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