The top reported proficiency rate is 57% in Math. The lowest is 45% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Brookview Elementary School
Brookview Elementary sits in the Southside area of Jacksonville, on Theresa Drive in the 32246 zip code, serving kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within Duval County Public Schools. The enrollment places it as a school of modest size for its grade band, and the student body is genuinely diverse: white students make up the largest single group, followed by Hispanic students, then Black students, with Asian students and students identifying as two or more races representing meaningful portions of the school as well. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which tells a parent something important about the economic context of the families this school serves.
On Florida's FAST assessments, Brookview's results are mixed and lean below the midpoint of what a Florida family might hope to see. In math, third and fourth graders score at rates that place roughly six in ten students at proficiency, which is a reasonably solid baseline for those grades. Fifth-grade math dips below that. Reading and ELA tell a harder story: third-grade ELA proficiency sits around half of students, fourth-grade results slip just below half, and fifth-grade ELA is the school's softest number, with only about a third of students reaching proficiency. The fifth-grade Florida Statewide Science Assessment results are comparable to the weaker ELA picture. Trend data was not available in the data provided, so whether these figures represent improvement, stability, or decline is something a parent should ask the school directly. A parent interested in literacy development, especially as students move toward the upper elementary grades, may want to have a specific conversation with school staff about what interventions and supports are in place for readers who are not yet at grade level.
Data on special education identification rates and English learner enrollment was not available in the data provided, so the depth of those support systems cannot be characterized here. Civil-rights and disciplinary data, course access details, and chronic absenteeism figures were also absent. The comparison framework available for Duval County schools did not yield a usable position for Brookview on proficiency or attendance measures, so a relative-to-neighbors read on academics is not something this data can support.
The school is part of a district-level research effort that did not surface confirmed parent-relevant changes before the search was exhausted, so district strategic priorities are left out rather than guessed at.
The surrounding part of Jacksonville is the Southside and Baymeadows corridor, one of the city's major suburban commercial hubs, described publicly as auto-centric and oriented around large retail centers and office parks, including proximity to the St. Johns Town Center. Jacksonville broadly is one of the faster-growing metro areas in the country, with the city named publicly as a housing hot spot where migration and affordability intersect. Home values in the zip code are modestly below the Florida state median and also slightly below the national median, and recent trends show a small year-over-year softening in both prices and rents. Monthly rent-to-income ratios in this area sit roughly in line with national norms, and estimated mortgage costs are somewhat below what the same square footage might cost in many Florida coastal markets. For a family relocating to Jacksonville and weighing housing options, the Southside area offers relative affordability within a growing city, though the neighborhood fabric is suburban rather than walkable.
Jacksonville's largest employers span health care systems including Baptist Health and Mayo Clinic Florida, logistics anchored by Amazon and JAXPORT, the military presence at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Duval County Public Schools itself, and a cluster of financial and fintech firms. That breadth of employment types gives the metro real economic range, which matters to families making long-term decisions about where to settle.
Brookview serves a diverse and largely economically challenged student body in a growing part of a large city. The academic results, particularly in ELA as students reach the upper grades, are an area worth exploring further with the school.
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