The top reported proficiency rate is 52% in Science. The lowest is 41% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Ramona Boulevard Elementary School
Ramona Boulevard Elementary sits in a residential section of west Jacksonville, serving kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within the Duval County district. The school is modestly sized for an elementary setting, and a large majority of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing it among schools serving a higher-need population. The student body is predominantly Black, with Hispanic and white students each making up a smaller share, and the remaining enrollment reflecting a variety of other backgrounds. Data on English learners and students with IEPs were not available in what was provided.
State assessment results from the most recent year give a mixed picture. In math, third-grade students performed at a rate that clears half the tested group, which is relatively the stronger result across the school's tested grades. By fourth and fifth grade, math proficiency falls below that mark and continues to decline. Reading tells a more concerning story: fewer than half of students in any tested grade reached proficiency, and fifth-grade ELA results are particularly low, with only about a third of students meeting the standard. Fifth-grade science came in just above half, which is somewhat more encouraging. Trend data were not available, so it is not possible to say from the data alone whether these numbers are improving, holding, or slipping. A parent wanting to understand the direction of academic progress would be well served asking the school directly about recent instructional changes and support structures.
The comparison framework here involves only two districts in Duval County, which makes a formal positioning against county peers uninformative, and no meaningful relative ranking is available from the data.
The school is part of Duval County Public Schools, one of the largest school districts in Florida. The district brief search was exhausted without confirming recent parent-relevant changes at the district level, so that context is absent here rather than guessed at.
The surrounding Jacksonville housing market provides useful context for families weighing a move into the attendance zone. Home values in the school's zip code sit noticeably below the Florida statewide benchmark and also below the national benchmark, making this part of Jacksonville more accessible to buyers than most of the state. Values in the immediate area have dipped year over year, while rents have edged slightly upward. The rent-to-income ratio in this zip code runs at roughly a quarter of income, which is within a generally manageable range by national convention. Jacksonville broadly is publicly reported as one of the faster-growing metro areas in the country, and the downtown core in particular is seeing substantial residential development and investment, though the Ramona Boulevard neighborhood is west of that downtown activity rather than in its path.
Jacksonville as a city is sprawling and largely car-dependent, and west Jacksonville neighborhoods like this one fall well outside the walkable pockets concentrated downtown and in Riverside and San Marco. Families should expect to drive for most errands and activities. The major employer base across the metro, anchored by health care systems, the military, logistics, and financial services, provides a broad range of economic footing for working households in the area.
Programs information was not available for Ramona Boulevard Elementary, so this account cannot speak to enrichment offerings, after-school programming, or specialty instruction beyond what the standard grade band implies. Families for whom program breadth matters beyond core academics would want to ask the school what it offers. The academic results as reported are below where many parents would hope to see a neighborhood elementary school, and the gaps are most visible in reading across all three tested grades. That is worth a direct conversation with the principal about what supports are in place for students who are not yet reading at grade level.
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