WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS

WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS operates as a very small elementary-level community in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, one of the schools within DUVAL. Current enrollment sits at 153 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 75% leaner than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is one of 206 schools operated by DUVAL, a district that works with 131,562 students overall.

Looking at the student body, WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS logs that nearly all students (93%) are Black. By comparison, Duval County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS shows 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Duval County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 25.2%, a residual of -5.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Duval County put the typical household earns roughly $71,277 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is RUTH N. UPSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS. On composite proficiency, WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site. As a public charter, WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WAYMAN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS has shrank 48%, going from 296 students in 2018 to 153 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 296.0:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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