ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK

ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK is a K-12 campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in ORANGE PARK, Florida, part of CLAY, instructing 405 students in grades K through 12.

CLAY comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 39,116 students; ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK is among them.

In terms of who attends, ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK records that White students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 11% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Clay County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 70.2%; ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK posts 49.0%, -21.2 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Clay County shows the typical household earns roughly $87,820 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK is one of 55 public schools in Clay County (combined enrollment of about 38,806 students).

The closest other public school is ORANGE PARK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 60.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. ST. JOHNS CLASSICAL ACADEMY ORANGE PARK operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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