The top reported proficiency rate is 38% in Math. The lowest is 23% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Tiger Academy
Tiger Academy is a charter elementary school in Jacksonville, Florida, serving kindergarten through fifth grade at a Bagley Road address in the 32209 zip code. It is a small school by elementary standards, with enrollment spread fairly evenly across all six grade levels. Nearly every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is overwhelmingly Black, with very small shares of Hispanic and multiracial students. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in the records reviewed.
On Florida's state assessments, the academic picture is mixed and warrants close attention. In third-grade math, roughly approaching half of students tested at proficiency, which is the school's strongest single result in the data. Fourth-grade reading also reached a majority of students tested, a bright spot. But results fall off in the upper elementary grades. Fifth-grade math and fifth-grade science both show only a minority of students at proficiency, and third-grade reading is particularly low, with only a small fraction of students scoring at grade level. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say from this record whether scores are improving, flat, or declining. A parent would do well to ask the school directly about its reading intervention approach and how results have moved over recent years.
Programs data was not available for Tiger Academy, so specific instructional approaches, enrichment offerings, or any specialized programming cannot be described from what was provided. The school's website or admissions office would be the right place to ask about curriculum model, extracurriculars, and family engagement expectations, which matter especially in a charter setting where families are making an active choice.
The school sits in the northwestern part of Jacksonville, a city that is simultaneously one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the country and deeply uneven in its geography. Downtown Jacksonville is in the middle of a substantial development wave, publicly reported to include hotel, residential, and university projects along the St. Johns River, and the metro's population is projected to grow at more than twice the national average through 2029. But that energy is concentrated in the urban core and suburban growth corridors, not uniformly across all neighborhoods. The 32209 zip code, where Tiger Academy sits, carries housing values well below both the Florida state median and the national median, and below the county's other zip codes in this data. Those values have declined modestly year over year. Rents are low by Jacksonville and national standards, with a rent-to-income ratio that sits below the typical threshold of housing stress, making the area genuinely accessible for families on limited incomes. Jacksonville is largely car-dependent outside of a few walkable downtown and near-downtown neighborhoods, so families should plan around driving or transit access to reach the school.
The Duval County district brief turned up no confirmed parent-relevant policy or program changes, so that material was left out rather than guessed at.
For a family drawn to a small, community-rooted charter school in a low-cost corner of Jacksonville, Tiger Academy offers accessibility and a focused grade band. The academic results in math and reading at several grade levels are below where most parents would want to see them, and a conversation with school leadership about what the data means and what the school is doing about it would be a reasonable first step before enrolling.
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