Academic Performance
Percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards, by grade.
Science1 grade reported
Grade 8
50%
Located in ORANGE PARK, FL. Serving grades KG through 12.
Clay Virtual Franchise is a public, non-charter virtual school operated by the Clay County district and based administratively in Orange Park. It serves students from kindergarten through twelfth grade, making it one of the few Florida virtual programs with a full K-12 span under a single school designation. The enrollment is small, noticeably so for a school covering that many grade levels, and the student body skews heavily toward the upper grades, with the senior class alone accounting for a substantial share of total enrollment. That pattern is common in virtual programs, where older students often seek flexible scheduling, credit recovery, or an alternative path to graduation.
The free-and-reduced-price-lunch rate is relatively modest compared to many traditional public schools, suggesting the student population here skews away from the highest economic-need households, though data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available, so those dimensions of the student profile cannot be assessed. Racially, the school is majority white with Black and Hispanic students each representing meaningful but smaller shares, and small numbers of other groups.
State assessment results across math, ELA, and fifth-grade science were suppressed, almost certainly because the small number of students in any given tested grade fell below Florida's reporting threshold for privacy protection. The one reported result, eighth-grade science, placed roughly half of tested students at proficiency. A parent should not read the suppressed results as a sign of weak performance; the school's size in each grade band simply does not generate reportable data. If academic performance comparison is important to a family, they would need to request outcome data directly from the school or district. The comparison set for Clay County contained only one district, so no peer positioning was possible on proficiency, graduation rate, or chronic absenteeism.
A graduation rate was not reported in the available data. For a program where many students are upper-grade, that is a gap worth exploring directly with the school, particularly for families whose student is enrolling with graduation as the near-term goal.
Program details, staffing ratios, course offerings, and attendance data were not available in the data provided. A parent considering this school for a younger child should ask specifically how instruction is structured for elementary students in a virtual environment, since the enrollment pattern suggests the program may be better established at the secondary level by volume if not by design intent.
The school's mailing address places it along Kingsley Avenue in Orange Park, a small incorporated town on the western shore of the St. Johns River in northeastern Clay County, roughly a short drive south of downtown Jacksonville. Because this is a virtual program, the physical location matters mainly as an administrative and perhaps pickup/testing point rather than a daily destination. Orange Park itself is a suburban, car-oriented community with busy commercial corridors along Blanding Boulevard and US 17, mature residential neighborhoods, and riverfront access along the St. Johns and Doctors Lake. The town is largely built out, with new residential growth concentrated in surrounding unincorporated Clay County areas. Home values in the area are modestly below the Florida statewide median and have dipped slightly year over year, while rents have moved slightly upward, making the housing market here somewhat more accessible than the state average, though still reflecting broader mortgage-rate pressures.
The Clay district brief was searched but no confirmed parent-relevant changes were surfaced before the search was exhausted, so that section was left out rather than filled with speculation.
For a family weighing this option, the clearest fit is an older student who needs scheduling flexibility, an alternative pathway, or a different academic rhythm than a traditional campus provides. Families with younger children or students who need disability-related services or English language support should press the school directly on how those needs are met in a virtual setting before enrolling.
Percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards, by grade.
Officially reported figures, 2024-25.
All reported measures, by topic.