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What's one thing VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
1,178
Elementary
DISTRICT 952 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. JOHNS·NCES 120174008280
VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY
105 GREENLEAF DR, PONTE VEDRA, FL 32081 · (904) 547-4090 · St. Johns County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,178 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
67 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
203 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
80.5%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.3pp since 2023
Math
86.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +0.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 have held steady.
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
81.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
72.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,178
-457 (-28%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 17.6:1
% White
72%
was 77%
% Hispanic
12%
was 9%
% Black
4%
was 4%
% Asian
6%
was 8%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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%.
On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
St. Johns County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
306,934
Census ACS
Median income
$109,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
68
52,895 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ST. JOHNS
- TOCOI CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,616 students
- CREEKSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,479 students
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,214 students
- ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,177 students
- BARTRAM TRAIL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- MILL CREEK ACADEMYElementary · 1,983 students
Other schools in PONTE VEDRA
- ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,177 students
- PONTE VEDRA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,924 students
- PALM VALLEY ACADEMYElementary · 1,408 students
Nearby schools
- ALLEN D NEASE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 2,177
- LAKESIDE ACADEMY2.4 mi · 1,356
- BEACHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL2.5 mi · 2,214
- BARTRAM SPRINGS ELEMENTARY2.5 mi · 1,013
- PALM VALLEY ACADEMY3.1 mi · 1,408
- PONTE VEDRA HIGH SCHOOL3.7 mi · 1,924
Frequently asked questions
About VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMYHow many students attend VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY?
VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY enrolls approximately 1,178 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY serve?
VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY serves grades PK-08.
How many teachers does VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY have?
VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY employs 67 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.6:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY?
At VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY, the student body is approximately 72% White, 12% Hispanic, 4% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY public or private?
VALLEY RIDGE ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ST. JOHNS.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.