RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a moderately sized elementary campus in ORANGE PARK, Florida, RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL teaches 592 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under CLAY.

CLAY runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 39,116 students. RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Clay County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.1%; this one delivers 59.2%.

Around the school, census data for Clay County shows median household earnings sit near $87,820, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Clay County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,806 students), RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RIDGEVIEW HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 58.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has expanded 6%, going from 559 students in 2018 to 592 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 67% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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