The top reported proficiency rate is 51% in Math. The lowest is 49% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Lake Lucina Elementary School
Lake Lucina Elementary sits on Merrill Road in the northeastern part of Jacksonville, a pre-K through fifth grade neighborhood school within Duval County Public Schools. It is a small school for its grade band, drawing from a racially and ethnically mixed community: Black and Hispanic students together make up a clear majority of enrollment, white students represent a smaller share, and multiracial, Asian, and other groups account for the rest. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which tells you something meaningful about the economic context of the families here. Data on English learners and students with IEPs were not available in what was provided.
On Florida's state assessments, the picture is mixed and worth sitting with honestly. In third grade, math and reading proficiency both land in the mid-range, with reading somewhat ahead of math. By fourth grade, math proficiency rises noticeably while reading dips below half. By fifth grade, both subjects fall into the low-to-mid forties, and fifth grade science comes in just under half of students scoring proficient. Taken together, the school's tested grades show that roughly half or fewer of students are reaching state proficiency benchmarks across subjects, and the fifth grade results in particular are an area a parent would want to ask the school about directly. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible from this data to say whether results are improving, holding steady, or declining.
No program offerings were provided in what was shared, so information on enrichment, arts, reading intervention, or other supports is absent here. A parent should ask the school directly about what supplemental programming and academic support structures are in place, especially for students who enter below grade level.
The school is not a charter or magnet school. It is a conventional neighborhood public school, which means attendance is tied to address, and the school does not carry a specialized focus or selective admissions process.
The surrounding zip code tells a modest housing story. Home values are well below Florida's statewide median and track below the national benchmark as well, making this one of the more affordable parts of a metro that has been publicly reported as a 2026 national housing hot spot for migration and relative affordability. Rents have been climbing, though they remain lower than much of the Jacksonville market. The price-to-income ratio here is relatively manageable by national standards. Families renting pay roughly a quarter of income toward housing costs, which is near the conventional affordability threshold.
Jacksonville itself is a sprawling city, and the Merrill Road corridor is distinctly suburban and car-dependent. The city's employment base is broad, led publicly reported by health care systems including Baptist Health and Mayo Clinic, along with Amazon's distribution presence, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, and Duval County Public Schools itself. The metro is growing at a pace publicly reported as more than twice the national average, with most of that residential energy concentrated downtown along the St. Johns River, some distance from this school's neighborhood.
Duval County's district brief yielded little on recent strategic priorities or school-specific changes before the research was exhausted, so that layer is absent rather than guessed at.
For a family weighing this school, the core question is academic support. The proficiency levels reported are below where many families would set a comfort threshold, particularly in the upper elementary grades. That does not tell the full story of any school's culture, staff quality, or how individual children experience the classroom, but it is the data that exists, and a parent would be well-served by visiting and asking specifically what the school does when students are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks.
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