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What's something RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
758
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048000690
RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4346 ROANOKE BLVD, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32208 · (904) 924-3077 · Duval County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL758 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
572 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 60 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 123 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 136 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 119 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (119).
Student demographics
26%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
39.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +6.2pp since 2023
Math
59.9%
FL avg 58.9% . +11.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.4% | 59.9% |
| 2023-24 | 33.1% | 48.1% |
% 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
44.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (44.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 758 | 75.5% | 44.3% |
| PINE HILLS ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 671 | 74.8% | 41.5% |
| ROYAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAUDERHILL | 704 | 76.1% | 40.7% |
| NORTH SHORE ELEMENTARY JACKSONVILLE | 614 | 78.2% | 37.4% |
| HIAWASSEE ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 619 | 73.7% | 44.2% |
| GALAXY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOYNTON BEACH | 595 | 75.3% | 36.9% |
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 RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.3% | #1,624 of 2,136 | #70 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.9% | #1,100 of 2,149 ▲ 377 | #48 of 122 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #1,797 of 2,149 ▲ 128 | #76 of 122 ▲ 12 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 758 | #559 of 2,267 | #29 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #1,833 of 2,077 | #82 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.0% | #1,906 of 2,108 | #110 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.5% | #266 of 2,188 | #18 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +171.7% | #2 of 621 | #1 of 33 |
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
758
+569 (+301%) vs 2020
+46% since 1990-91, when it was 520
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 758 | 40 | 18.9:1 | 75% (572) |
| 2023-24 | 749 | 39 | 19.2:1 | 80% (601) |
| 2022-23 | 201 | 16 | 12.6:1 | 86% (172) |
| 2020-21 | 189 | 13 | 14.5:1 | 90% (171) |
| 2017-18 | 279 | 17 | 16.4:1 | 89% (247) |
| 2015-16 | 284 | 24 | 11.8:1 | 81% (229) |
| 2010-11 | 233 | 21 | 11.1:1 | 91% (211) |
| 2000-01 | 362 | 22 | 16.4:1 | 88% (320) |
| 1990-91 | 520 | 22 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Students in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, attend RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary school. It serves 758 students in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average about 604 students.
The district, DUVAL, operates 206 schools serving 131,562 students.
RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment is 86% Black. The next largest groups are 6% White, 4% Hispanic, and 3% multiracial. The school's Black share is 57 points above the 29% share among Duval County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 26% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at the school number 40 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 18.9:1. On average, elementary schools in Florida have 17.5:1, compared with 18.9:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 75% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Duval County is 47%.
RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 44.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 43.4%.
Duval County has these Census figures: the median household income is $71,277, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. In all, Duval County has 220 public schools and roughly 141,209 students.
The school nearest to RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL, at a distance of about 1.3 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 4th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Its NCES locale code is City: Large: the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21 count was 189 students and the 2024-25 count was 758. A difference that large may reflect a change in which grades the school serves. By 2024-25, the school had 18.9 students per teacher, compared with 14.5 in 2020-21.
Parents and students can post about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
Related schools
Other schools in DUVAL
- ATLANTIC COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,887 students
- SANDALWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,627 students
- MANDARIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,343 students
- DUNCAN U. FLETCHER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,184 students
- FIRST COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,098 students
- ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,896 students
Other schools in JACKSONVILLE
- DIGITAL ACADEMY OF FLORIDACombined · 6,069 students
- ATLANTIC COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,887 students
- SANDALWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,627 students
- MANDARIN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,343 students
- FIRST COAST HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,098 students
- ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,896 students
Nearby schools
- JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 530
- JEAN RIBAULT HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,224
- SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 366
- S. A. HULL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 188
- IDEA BASSETT1.8 mi · 1,012
- WILLIAM M. RAINES HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 1,376
Frequently asked questions
About RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 758 students in grades PK-05.
Is RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.9:1.
How diverse is RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 6% White, 4% Hispanic, 86% Black, 0% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of DUVAL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.