The top reported proficiency rate is 56% in Math. The lowest is 36% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Arlington Elementary School
Arlington Elementary sits on University Boulevard North in Jacksonville, serving children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade within Duval County Public Schools. The school is small relative to what you might expect for its grade band, with an enrollment that places it among the more modestly sized elementary schools in the area. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which tells you something about the economic profile of the families the school serves. The student body is racially diverse, with Black students making up roughly half the enrollment, Hispanic and white students each representing about a fifth, and smaller shares of other groups. Data on English learner enrollment and students served by IEPs were not available in what was provided.
On state assessments, the picture is mixed and worth a careful look. Florida reports results on the FAST assessments for grades three through five. In math, the school's proficiency rates across those three grades are reasonably solid, with fourth grade reaching the highest mark of the three and third and fifth grades landing close behind. Those math results sit in a range that many parents would find encouraging, with a clear majority of tested students reaching proficiency at each grade. Reading and language arts tell a different story. Third grade ELA proficiency is quite low, well under half of students scoring proficient, while fourth and fifth grades are notably stronger, with fifth approaching a near-even split. Third grade ELA is the number a parent should ask the school about directly, whether that reflects a particular cohort, instructional approach, or something the school is actively working to address. Fifth grade science proficiency lands just above half of students, which is roughly in line with the math performance at that grade. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible from this data to say whether scores are improving, holding steady, or declining.
No program information was provided for Arlington Elementary, so it is not possible to describe enrichment offerings, pull-out services, gifted programming, or special supports beyond what demographics suggest the school likely encounters. Discipline data, attendance rates, staffing ratios, and information about the school's Title I status were also absent from the data.
The neighborhood surrounding the school is part of Jacksonville's sprawling urban fabric, and a few things about that context are worth knowing. Jacksonville is one of the faster-growing metro areas in the country, publicly reported as a national housing hot spot for 2026. Home values in the zip code where the school sits run well below Florida's statewide median and also below national median values, with a slight year-over-year dip. Rents in the area are modest, and the rent-to-income math is relatively favorable compared to many urban markets. That combination of below-median home prices and an actively growing metro could matter to families weighing a longer-term household decision alongside a school choice.
Like much of Jacksonville outside its walkable downtown pockets, the University Boulevard corridor is car-dependent. The city's civic infrastructure, its library system, riverfront parks, transit network, and cultural institutions, is concentrated downtown and in neighborhoods like Riverside and San Marco, which are separate from the school's immediate area. Jacksonville's major employers span health care, logistics, military, and financial services, which shapes the working households that populate the city's various neighborhoods.
On the Duval County comparison, the data set available covered only a small number of districts in the county, and the proficiency index comparison was flagged as not applicable because the cohort was too small to produce a meaningful relative standing. Graduation rate and chronic absenteeism comparisons were not available at the school level. The district brief search did not surface confirmed recent changes to Duval County Public Schools' priorities or programs, so that information was left out rather than guessed at.
What this school offers is a small elementary environment in a mid-priced Jacksonville neighborhood, with math results that are reasonably strong and ELA results that are uneven, particularly at the entry point of third grade.
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