TIGER ACADEMY

TIGER ACADEMY, a minimally staffed elementary-level community in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, one of the schools within DUVAL, hosts 198 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% below the state mean of about 604.

Within DUVAL, which oversees 206 schools and 131,562 students, TIGER ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, TIGER ACADEMY records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, TIGER ACADEMY has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Duval County's rate of about 47%.

After controlling for student poverty, TIGER ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of +3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Duval County put median household income runs about $71,277, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Duval County runs 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), of which TIGER ACADEMY is one.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TIGER ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, TIGER ACADEMY comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. As a public charter, TIGER ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. TIGER ACADEMY's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 217 (now 198). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 99% to 92%.

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