VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY

Located at 105 GREENLEAF DR, in PONTE VEDRA, Florida, VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY is an expansive elementary-level community that caters to 1,178 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by ST. JOHNS. Enrollment runs roughly 95% larger than the state mean of about 604.

Within ST. JOHNS, which oversees 53 schools and 52,383 students, VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

Demographically, VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment; the rest reads as 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Black.

Looking at school resources, On paper, VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY has 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.5%; this one delivers 81.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for St. Johns County indicate median household income runs about $109,839, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, St. Johns County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 52,895 students), of which VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 77.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 1,635 students in 2018 compared to 1,178 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 77% to 72%.

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