Enrollment
366
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048000686
SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3501 WINTON DR, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32208 · (904) 924-3086 · Duval County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL366 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
261 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 72 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 17% larger than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
23%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
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
41.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +11.8pp since 2023
Math
38.3%
FL avg 58.9% . -4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.1% | 38.3% |
| 2023-24 | 29.4% | 43.0% |
% 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
35.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.4%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (35.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 366 | 71.3% | 35.1% |
| SUNLAND PARK ACADEMY FORT LAUDERDALE | 353 | 73.4% | 51.5% |
| DEERFIELD PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DEERFIELD BEACH | 391 | 73.4% | 49.1% |
| ENDEAVOUR PRIMARY LEARNING CENTER LAUDERHILL | 317 | 69.4% | 58.3% |
| LARKDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LAUDERHILL | 399 | 74.7% | 49.0% |
| BAY POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST PETERSBURG | 390 | 73.8% | 51.7% |
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 SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #1,978 of 2,136 | #97 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.3% | #1,969 of 2,149 ▼ 253 | #105 of 122 ▼ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.1% | #1,724 of 2,149 ▲ 292 | #73 of 122 ▲ 27 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 366 | #1,856 of 2,267 | #92 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #352 of 2,077 | #11 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.5% | #1,926 of 2,108 | #113 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.3% | #410 of 2,188 | #23 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.7% | #549 of 1,374 | #35 of 80 |
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
366
-15 (-4%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 764
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 366 | 26 | 14.1:1 | 71% (261) |
| 2023-24 | 383 | 27 | 14.2:1 | 75% (287) |
| 2022-23 | 384 | 27 | 14.2:1 | 77% (297) |
| 2020-21 | 381 | 30 | 12.7:1 | 80% (303) |
| 2017-18 | 450 | 34 | 13.2:1 | 84% (380) |
| 2015-16 | 396 | 37 | 10.7:1 | 81% (319) |
| 2010-11 | 382 | 31 | 12.3:1 | 85% (323) |
| 2000-01 | 392 | 27 | 14.5:1 | 86% (339) |
| 1990-91 | 764 | 37 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a small elementary school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 366 students. The school is 39% below the average for elementary schools in Florida.
SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL belongs to DUVAL, a district of 206 schools and 131,562 students.
Black students account for 87% of the school's enrollment. The school is also 6% White and 4% Hispanic. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 29%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 23%.
Staffing at SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes to 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.1:1. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 3.4 more students per teacher than here. SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL counts 71% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 47% average for public schools in Duval County.
On BeatsExpectations, SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 10.3 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
American Community Survey estimates for Duval County show that median household income comes to about $71,277, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Duval County counts 220 public schools with about 141,209 students.
The closest school to SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is JEAN RIBAULT HIGH SCHOOL, located about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had a net loss of 15 students, or 4%. The school's ratio increased from 12.7:1 to 14.1:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 1,224
- JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 530
- WILLIAM M. RAINES HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,376
- RUTLEDGE H. PEARSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 758
- TIGER ACADEMY1.4 mi · 198
- RUFUS E. PAYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 233
Frequently asked questions
About SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 366 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.1:1 students per teacher at SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 6% White, 4% Hispanic, 87% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SALLYE B. MATHIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by DUVAL in Duval County.
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