RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, run under DUVAL. It caters to 758 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 25% bigger than typical.

DUVAL runs 206 schools in total, collectively educating 131,562 students. RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). Other groups include 6% White, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Duval County's rate of about 47%.

After controlling for student poverty, RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.4%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Duval County indicate median household income runs about $71,277, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Duval County runs 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), of which RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has grew 172%, going from 279 students in 2018 to 758 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 91% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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