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Enrollment
809
Elementary
DISTRICT 530 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DUVAL·NCES 120048003360
TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
8000 POINT MEADOWS DR, JACKSONVILLE, FL 32256 · (904) 538-0239 · Duval County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL809 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
358 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 50%
Community
6
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 | 40 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 120 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 107 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 127 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 153 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 150 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (120) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (150).
Student demographics
71%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
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
41.3%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.4pp since 2023
Math
54.2%
FL avg 58.9% . +6.2pp 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 54 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.3% | 54.2% |
| 2023-24 | 38.8% | 48.0% |
% 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
46.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.0%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (46.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 809 | 44.3% | 46.2% |
| HIDDEN OAKS K-8 LAKE WORTH | 835 | 45.7% | 72.3% |
| ENTERPRISE LEARNING ACADEMY JACKSONVILLE | 787 | 47.0% | 53.6% |
| DISCOVERY OAKS ELEMENTARY ORANGE PARK | 915 | 44.5% | 68.0% |
| CHIMNEY LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 871 | 46.2% | 58.8% |
| PRAIRIE LAKE ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 776 | 49.0% | 52.1% |
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 TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Duval County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.2% | #1,517 of 2,136 | #64 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #1,360 of 2,149 ▲ 126 | #64 of 122 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #1,718 of 2,149 ▼ 21 | #72 of 122 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 809 | #449 of 2,267 | #23 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.3:1 | #1,872 of 2,077 | #88 of 118 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.9% | #147 of 2,108 | #32 of 118 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.3% | #1,461 of 2,188 | #91 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #1,098 of 1,374 | #65 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
809
-14 (-2%) vs 2020
-20% since 2000-01, when it was 1,007
Student : Teacher
19.3:1
was 16.8:1
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 | 809 | 42 | 19.3:1 | 44% (358) |
| 2023-24 | 781 | 46 | 17.0:1 | 50% (391) |
| 2022-23 | 881 | 47 | 18.7:1 | 50% (444) |
| 2020-21 | 823 | 49 | 16.8:1 | 44% (361) |
| 2017-18 | 866 | 49 | 17.7:1 | 48% (412) |
| 2015-16 | 878 | 51 | 17.2:1 | 42% (369) |
| 2010-11 | 1,316 | 76 | 17.3:1 | 34% (453) |
| 2000-01 | 1,007 | 47 | 21.4:1 | 30% (301) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, as a medium-sized elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 809 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Florida is about 604 students.
DUVAL is the local district for TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It runs 206 schools with 131,562 students.
TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and Black students are the largest at 44%. Smaller groups are 22% Hispanic, 21% White, 8% multiracial, and 4% Asian. County-wide, 29% of Duval County residents are Black. By the diversity index, TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 71%.
The school reports 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 19.3 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 44% of students.
Measured against Florida public elementary schools, TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
A school with TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in Florida is predicted to score 59.0%. TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 46.2%, 12.8 points below that line.
County data help place the school in context: in Duval County, median household income is about $71,277, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among the 220 public schools in Duval County.
TWIN LAKES ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the public school closest to TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th of 5 on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 823 to 809. Students per teacher rose from 16.8 in 2020-21 to 19.3 in 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- TWIN LAKES ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 914
- ATLANTIC COAST HIGH SCHOOL1.6 mi · 2,887
- DUVAL CHARTER SCHOOL AT SOUTHSIDE2.8 mi · 1,064
- GLOBAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ARTS2.9 mi · 411
- DIGITAL ACADEMY OF FLORIDA3.6 mi · 6,069
- FLORIDA CYBER CHARTER ACADEMY AT CLAY3.7 mi · 310
Frequently asked questions
About TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 809 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 19.3:1 students per teacher at TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 21% White, 22% Hispanic, 44% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
TWIN LAKES ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by DUVAL in Duval County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.