Florida Cyber Charter Academy at Clay, Jacksonville FL

Original Research by School Decision on Florida Cyber Charter Academy at Clay

Florida Cyber Charter Academy at Clay is a full-span public charter school, serving kindergarten through grade twelve, that operates online and lists a Jacksonville address on the Southside near Baymeadows. It is chartered through Clay County's district authority but draws students without a traditional attendance boundary, which means enrollment reflects families who have actively chosen a virtual schooling model rather than a neighborhood catchment. The school is small relative to what a K-12 building of this grade range typically serves, and its enrollment skews heavily toward the high school grades, with the elementary grades carrying very thin cohorts.

State assessment results from Florida's FAST and Statewide Science assessments are reported for grades three through eight. The picture in math is a consistent soft spot across all tested grades, with fewer than half of students reaching proficiency at every level and the fourth-grade results particularly low. ELA tells a more varied story. Third and fifth graders came in around the midpoint of proficiency, sixth graders did better than that, while fourth, seventh, and eighth graders were below it. Fifth-grade science was a relative bright spot, with a majority of students reaching proficiency. Eighth-grade science, though, was strikingly low, among the weakest single results in the school's reported data. A parent considering this school for a student who needs strong math support should ask the school directly what interventions are in place, because the tested results across grades suggest that many students are not yet reaching grade-level expectations.

No trend data was available for comparison, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, stable, or declining from prior years. The comparison framework placed the school relative to districts in Duval County, but the cohort was too small to produce a meaningful position on the proficiency index. Graduation rate data for this school was not reported in the data provided; given that the school does serve high school grades, that is a gap worth raising directly with the school. Chronic absenteeism data was also not available.

Student demographics show a racially diverse enrollment, with White, Hispanic, and Black students each representing substantial shares and smaller populations of Asian and multiracial students. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch is low, which is an unusual profile for a virtual charter and may reflect who self-selects into this model, typically families with reliable internet access, a capable home supervisor, and flexibility in daily scheduling. Data on students with IEPs and English learners was not reported, so families of students in those categories should ask the school how it delivers related services in a fully virtual format.

No program offerings were reported in the data, so it is not possible to describe AP coursework, dual enrollment, career pathways, or extracurricular options. That is a meaningful gap for high school families in particular. The school's own website would be the place to investigate what the academic pathway looks like beyond the tested grades.

The school's Jacksonville address sits in a part of the city that is auto-oriented and suburban, near the Southside commercial and office corridors. Jacksonville itself is a large, sprawling city in the midst of sustained growth, publicly reported as one of the faster-growing metro areas nationally, with a downtown undergoing substantial residential and mixed-use development along the St. Johns River. For a virtual school, the surrounding neighborhood matters less than it would for a traditional campus, but the housing market context is relevant for families weighing a move. Home values in the area's zip code have dipped slightly year over year and sit modestly below the Florida statewide benchmark, making the area somewhat more accessible than many Florida metros, though buying still carries a meaningful monthly cost at current mortgage rates. Rents in the same zip code have been essentially flat.

The Clay district brief produced no confirmed parent-relevant changes, so that information is not included here rather than guessed at.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

80-89%Cohort of 46 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

867 schools plotted. 183 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 333%

School 33% · District 66% · ▼ 33 pts below district

▼ 30 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 417%

School 17% · District 63% · ▼ 46 pts below district

▼ 44 pts below state median · ▼ 39 pts below county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 55% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 627%

School 27% · District 77% · ▼ 50 pts below district

▼ 35 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 721%

School 21% · District 49% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 28 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 838%

School 38% · District 71% · ▼ 33 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 65% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 417%

School 17% · District 59% · ▼ 42 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Grade 553%

School 53% · District 56% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Grade 659%

School 59% · District 67% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 747%

School 47% · District 60% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 842%

School 42% · District 61% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · even with county median

Science

Grade 560%

School 60% · District 61% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 85%

School 5% · District 60% · ▼ 55 pts below district

▼ 41 pts below state median · ▼ 26 pts below county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.