The top reported proficiency rate is 42% in Math. The lowest is 23% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Biltmore Elementary School
Biltmore Elementary sits on West Palm Avenue in Jacksonville's westside, a neighborhood close to the urban core but removed from the city's high-growth downtown districts. The school serves children from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade and enrolls a small number of students for an elementary school of its grade band. The student body is predominantly Black, with smaller shares of Hispanic and white students. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this squarely among the district's higher-poverty campuses. Data on English learner enrollment and students with individualized education plans were not available in the materials reviewed.
The academic picture from Florida's FAST assessments warrants honest attention. Math proficiency rates across tested grades run in the upper-thirties to mid-forties range, which sits below typical state midpoints for elementary schools. Reading and ELA results are lower still, with proficiency in those grades falling in the low-to-mid-twenties. Fifth-grade science results land at a similarly modest level. These are the most recent reported figures, and trend data across prior years was not available, so it is not possible to say from this data whether scores have been rising, falling, or holding steady. A parent would reasonably want to ask the school directly about its instructional approach, any targeted reading or literacy interventions in place, and how student progress is monitored year to year.
The neighbor comparison framework noted that the county has too few districts to produce a meaningful peer ranking for proficiency, so no county-level positioning is available here.
No information on course or program offerings, staffing, chronic absenteeism, or discipline data was available. The school's governance is standard public, non-charter, with no magnet designation on record.
The housing market around Biltmore's zip code tells a story of relative affordability within a city that is otherwise drawing significant migration. Home values in this area are well below the Florida statewide median and notably below Jacksonville's faster-appreciating neighborhoods, and they have declined modestly over the past year. Rents here are among the more accessible in the metro, with a rent-to-income ratio that compares favorably to national norms. For families seeking to own or rent near the school without the price pressure found elsewhere in Jacksonville, this part of the westside offers lower barriers to entry.
Jacksonville itself is a sprawling, largely car-dependent city, and the westside is no exception to that pattern. The walkable pockets the city is known for, Riverside, San Marco, the downtown riverfront, are not immediately adjacent to this address, though they are reachable. The city's economy is anchored by health care, logistics tied to JAXPORT, military installations, and a growing financial services sector, providing a broad employment base for families living here. Downtown is in a period of active construction and population growth, which has not yet translated into the area immediately around Biltmore.
Duval County Public Schools is the parent district. A search for recent district-level strategic changes or policy shifts that would directly affect Biltmore did not surface confirmed information, so that context was left out rather than estimated.
Biltmore Elementary is a small neighborhood school serving a community with significant economic need. Its tested proficiency rates are low across subjects, and families who are weighing options should go into conversations with the school with specific questions about literacy instruction, support structures, and what the school's data looks like for students who have been enrolled for multiple years. What the data does not show is program depth, teacher experience, school culture, or the character of the classroom environment, and those things matter for a decision at this age band as much as the assessment numbers.
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