The top reported proficiency rate is 69% in Math. The lowest is 60% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on New Berlin Elementary School
New Berlin Elementary sits on New Berlin Road in the far northeastern corner of Jacksonville, a part of the city that sits well outside the downtown core and the walkable historic neighborhoods. Jacksonville is a sprawling place, and this school's zip code reflects that: predominantly residential and suburban, car-dependent, and physically distant from the riverfront development and urban amenities that characterize the city's center. The surrounding area is shaped in part by proximity to major logistics corridors and Naval Air Station Jacksonville, both of which are woven into the city's broader employment base.
The school serves prekindergarten through fifth grade, which means there is no graduation rate and no high school pathway data to consider here. Enrollment is large for an elementary school, with grade cohorts running deep from kindergarten through fifth grade and only a handful of prekindergarten seats. The student body is racially and ethnically mixed: white students form a plurality, Black students the next largest group, followed by Hispanic students, Asian students, and students identifying as two or more races. A little more than a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a meaningful but not majority share. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what was reported.
On state assessments, the picture is clearest in third grade, where proficiency in both math and ELA is strong. Third-grade math in particular stands out as a genuine strength. Reading and math scores in fourth and fifth grade are more uneven: fourth-grade ELA sits just above half of students reaching proficiency, and fifth-grade ELA is similar. Fifth-grade math falls noticeably below the third-grade mark, though it is still above the midpoint. Science results from fifth grade, the only grade at which science is tested at this level, land in the same general range as fifth-grade math. The pattern of relatively higher performance in the early tested grades and softer results in fourth and fifth grade is worth asking the school about directly. Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent improvement, stability, or a dip.
Program information was not provided for New Berlin Elementary, so specific enrichment, intervention, or specialty offerings cannot be described here.
The comparison framework for Duval County districts flagged that the county has too few districts for meaningful peer comparisons on proficiency, and chronic absenteeism data was not available, so those relative positions cannot be drawn.
Housing near the school reflects Jacksonville's broader affordability advantage relative to much of Florida and the country. Home values in the zip code are close to the state median and modestly above the national median, and they have been roughly flat or slightly down over the past year, which is a different trajectory than the rapid appreciation seen in many Florida markets. Rents have edged up slightly. Jacksonville as a whole is growing quickly, named publicly as one of the country's housing hot spots for 2026, with the metro projected to expand well above the national average through the end of the decade. That growth pressure has been concentrated downtown, but it is gradually reshaping conditions across the city. For families deciding whether to buy near this school, the market appears relatively accessible compared to many Florida peers, though mortgage rates remain elevated nationally.
The Duval County school district brief came back without confirmed parent-relevant changes, as the research process ran out of budget before any lasting policy or programmatic shifts could be verified. That gap is noted rather than filled.
For a family in the New Berlin Road corridor, this school offers a large, racially diverse elementary community with genuine strengths in early math and solid third-grade reading. The softer fourth- and fifth-grade results, particularly in ELA, are worth raising with the school to understand what supports are in place for students as they move through the upper elementary grades.
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