The top reported proficiency rate is 65% in English language arts. The lowest is 53% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Anchor Academy
Anchor Academy sits on Wonderwood Drive in Atlantic Beach, a small, largely built-out beach town on the northeastern edge of Duval County. The school serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Duval County district, drawing from a community that publicly reported sources describe as a predominantly residential beach enclave, denser and more walkable than much of the Jacksonville area, and oriented around its two commercial corridors, the Beaches Town Center and Mayport Road. Naval Station Mayport sits immediately to the north and shapes part of the local economy and population. Home values in the zip code run well above both the state and national medians, and they have been roughly flat to slightly down year over year, a pattern consistent with a built-out, high-demand coastal neighborhood.
The student body is modest in size for a PK-5 school. It is racially and ethnically mixed, with white students making up a plurality, followed by Black and Hispanic students, and a multiracial group rounding out the rest. A relatively small share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which reflects the area's higher-income character. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what we reviewed, so a parent with a child in either group should ask the school directly about support services.
Florida's FAST assessments, reported for grades three through five, give a somewhat uneven picture here. Third-grade results in both math and ELA are strong, comfortably above what would be considered a majority-proficient bar, which is a genuine academic strength at that grade level. By fourth grade the numbers fall into the moderate range in both subjects, and by fifth grade they fall further, sitting below the majority-proficient mark in both math and ELA, with science in the fifth grade landing in a similar place. The data does not include prior years, so whether these are trends improving, declining, or holding steady is not knowable from this snapshot. A parent of an upper-elementary-age child may want to ask the school about how it approaches differentiation and skill reinforcement across the grade band, particularly in math.
Comparison against other districts in Duval County was not usable here because the county's comparison set is too small to produce a meaningful position, so we left that out rather than imply a ranking.
No program offerings data was available for Anchor Academy, and there was nothing to report on discipline, attendance, or staffing ratios. Those are worth asking the school about at any visit or informational session.
Atlantic Beach itself is a settled, walkable community with an unusual amount of protected parkland for its size, including preserves along the Intracoastal and a large adjacent beachfront facility, plus free on-demand transit through the Jacksonville Transportation Authority's Beach Buggy service. Growth is mostly infill and teardown replacement; affordable housing is a local conversation, with a Beaches Habitat for Humanity townhome project that broke ground in 2025. The Duval district brief turned up no confirmed parent-relevant policy or operational changes during our research window, so we left that section out.
For a family living in Atlantic Beach or the broader Beaches area, Anchor Academy is the neighborhood public option for early elementary, in a community that is genuinely distinctive within Duval County. The third-grade academic results are a real positive. The upper-grade results are worth a direct conversation with the school, and the gaps in support-services data mean a family with particular learning needs should go ask before drawing conclusions.
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