TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL

TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized high school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, one of the schools within DUVAL. Current enrollment sits at 1,539 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,035 students per school, that is 49% bigger than typical.

Within DUVAL, which oversees 206 schools and 131,562 students, TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL records that 47% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 17% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 23.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 53.5%; this one comes in at 36.1%, -17.3 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, Duval County reports that median household income runs about $71,277, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Duval County's 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PARKWOOD HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, TERRY PARKER HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 1,613 students in 2018 compared to 1,539 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.