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Enrollment
1,473
Elementary
DISTRICT 952 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. JOHNS·NCES 120174008389
PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY
475 LONGLEAF PINE PKWY, SAINT JOHNS, FL 32259 · (904) 547-4050 · St. Johns County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,473 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of Florida public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
17.3:1
85 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
125 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 109 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 120 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 140 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 158 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 136 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 183 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 197 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 219 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 211 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (109) is 48% smaller than its 8th grade class (211).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
83.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
88.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.4% | 88.5% |
| 2023-24 | 79.0% | 85.8% |
% 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
83.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 77% 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 PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY
PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY's state test result (83.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY this school | 1,473 | 8.5% | 83.3% |
| IMAGINE SCHOOL AT LAND O' LAKES LAND O LAKES | 913 | 11.5% | 70.0% |
| WARDS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST AUGUSTINE | 1,156 | 21.5% | 70.4% |
| DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAINT JOHNS | 1,090 | 21.7% | 79.8% |
| HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 752 | 14.9% | 81.2% |
| BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 852 | 10.3% | 87.6% |
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 PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In St. Johns County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #77 of 2,136 | #4 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.5% | #76 of 2,149 ▲ 29 | #4 of 27 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.4% | #77 of 2,149 ▲ 51 | #3 of 27 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,473 | #32 of 2,267 | #5 of 30 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #1,524 of 2,077 | #22 of 27 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.1% | #984 of 2,108 | #8 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.5% | #2,137 of 2,188 | #25 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #1,036 of 1,374 | #13 of 14 |
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
1,473
+217 (+17%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 1,473 | 85 | 17.3:1 | 8% (125) |
| 2023-24 | 1,466 | 87.8 | 16.7:1 | 9% (125) |
| 2022-23 | 1,468 | 90.8 | 16.2:1 | 7% (103) |
| 2020-21 | 1,256 | 75 | 16.8:1 | 6% (75) |
| 2017-18 | 1,604 | 97 | 16.5:1 | 4% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 1,339 | 73 | 18.3:1 | 4% (50) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY.
About PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY
PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY is a large elementary school located in SAINT JOHNS, Florida. A federal count lists 1,473 students at the school, in kindergarten through 8. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Florida is about 604, so this school runs 144% above that.
The district for PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY is ST. JOHNS, with 53 schools and 52,383 students.
By race and ethnicity, PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY is 60% White. The school is also 19% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. That is lower than the 79% White share among all St. Johns County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 58%.
A ratio of 17.3:1 comes from the school's 85 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Florida have a similar average ratio of 17.5:1. The lunch program counts 8% of students at PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The 21% average for public schools in St. Johns County is 13 points higher.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY falls in the middle 80% of Florida schools: 83.3% actual against 76.9% predicted.
In St. Johns County (population about 306,934), median household income is about $109,839, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 51% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY is one of 68 public schools in St. Johns County, which together enroll about 52,895 students.
The school nearest to PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY is LIBERTY PINES ACADEMY, at a distance of about 0.7 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY is 2nd on average proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY is Suburb: Large.
PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY saw enrollment rise 17% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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St. Johns County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
306,934
Census ACS
Median income
$109,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
52,895 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ST. JOHNS
- TOCOI CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,616 students
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,479 students
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,214 students
- ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,177 students
- BARTRAM TRAIL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- MILL CREEK ACADEMYElementary · 1,983 students
Other schools in SAINT JOHNS
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,479 students
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,214 students
- BARTRAM TRAIL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- LIBERTY PINES ACADEMYElementary · 1,795 students
- SWITZERLAND POINT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,282 students
- FRUIT COVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,157 students
Nearby schools
- LIBERTY PINES ACADEMY0.7 mi · 1,795
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 2,479
- DURBIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 1,090
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL2.8 mi · 2,214
- FREEDOM CROSSING ACADEMY3.0 mi · 1,964
- FRUIT COVE MIDDLE SCHOOL3.0 mi · 1,157
Frequently asked questions
About PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY?
PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY enrolls approximately 1,473 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY serve?
PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY is approximately 17.3:1 (85 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY?
Student demographics at PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY are roughly 60% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% Black, 19% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY public or private?
PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ST. JOHNS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.