SADIE T. TILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 6084 MORSE AVE, in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, SADIE T. TILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier elementary campus that enrolls 538 students (grades K through 5), part of DUVAL.

Within DUVAL, which oversees 206 schools and 131,562 students, SADIE T. TILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SADIE T. TILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 25% Hispanic, 11% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Duval County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 66% 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 north of Duval County's rate of about 47%.

With demographic context factored in, SADIE T. TILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.0%; this one delivers 36.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Duval County) shows that median household earnings sit near $71,277, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. SADIE T. TILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 220 public schools in Duval County (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students).

The closest other public school is TIMUCUAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SADIE T. TILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.7%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. SADIE T. TILLIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 10% since 2018, when it stood at 489 (now 538). Hispanic enrollment moved from 16% to 25% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 in 2025.

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