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SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, one of the schools within DUVAL. Current enrollment sits at 519 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 206 schools in DUVAL (131,562 students total), SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Black (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 31% Hispanic, 27% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Duval County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.9%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of -6.0 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Duval County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,277 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 220 public schools in Duval County (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students).
The closest other public school is DUVAL CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY, roughly 1.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 54.2%.
SOUTHSIDE ESTATES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 509 students in 2018 compared to 519 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 20% to 31%.
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