Duval Virtual Instruction Academy, Jacksonville FL

Original Research by School Decision on Duval Virtual Instruction Academy

Duval Virtual Instruction Academy is a fully online, district-run public school operating under Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida. It serves students from kindergarten through twelfth grade and is not a charter school. The school's administrative address places it in Jacksonville, but the delivery model means the physical location matters far less than the structure of online learning itself.

The enrollment skews noticeably toward the upper grades. The youngest grades carry relatively small cohorts, while the middle and high school years account for the majority of students. The student body is racially mixed, with Black and white students each representing substantial shares, and Hispanic students making up a meaningful portion as well. Fewer than a third of enrolled students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a lower economic disadvantage rate than many Duval County public schools. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in the provided records.

State assessment results from Florida's FAST and Statewide Science assessments paint a mixed picture, and parents should look at this data with an understanding of what an online school's tested population often represents. In reading and language arts, third-grade results were comparatively strong, but scores fell sharply in the upper elementary grades before recovering somewhat in sixth through eighth grade, where roughly half of eighth-graders reached proficiency in ELA. Math results were considerably lower across all tested grades, with most grade levels showing fewer than a quarter of students scoring proficient, and fifth-grade math proficiency was reported at zero. Science results at both the fifth- and eighth-grade benchmarks were also low. Trend data was not available, so whether these results are improving, stable, or declining cannot be determined from the provided information. A parent considering this school would do well to ask the school directly about its academic support structures, how it monitors student progress grade by grade, and what intervention looks like in an asynchronous or remote environment.

The graduation rate data was not available in the provided records. For a school serving through twelfth grade, that is a meaningful gap, and a parent interested in the high school years should ask the school to share that figure directly.

Program details were not included in the data. Whether the school offers Advanced Placement courses, dual enrollment through Florida State College at Jacksonville or another institution, or career and technical education pathways in the high school grades is not something the available records answer. These are worth asking about before enrolling a high school student.

Jacksonville itself is a large, sprawling city undergoing a real downtown transformation, with a fast-growing metro and a housing market that still sits below Florida's statewide median home price. Rents in the zip codes near the school's administrative address have moved upward modestly year over year. The city's major employers span health care, logistics, the military, and finance, and there is publicly reported momentum around new residential and commercial development in the urban core, including projects tied to a proposed University of Florida graduate campus in LaVilla. For a virtual school, the community context shapes family life more than it shapes daily school experience, but Jacksonville's growth trajectory and relative affordability remain relevant for families deciding where to plant roots.

No information on discipline, attendance, or staffing was present in the data. The district brief returned no confirmed recent parent-relevant changes about Duval County Public Schools' virtual program.

Who this school fits is families who, for whatever reason, need or prefer a full-time online model within a traditional public school framework rather than a charter or private virtual provider. The academic results, particularly in math and upper elementary, are a real factor to weigh, and a parent should press the school on how it identifies and supports students who fall behind when daily face-to-face contact is absent.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

90-94%Cohort of 106 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

867 schools plotted. 183 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 327%

School 27% · District 59% · ▼ 32 pts below district

▼ 36 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

Grade 415%

School 15% · District 60% · ▼ 45 pts below district

▼ 46 pts below state median · ▼ 41 pts below county median

Grade 50%

School 0% · District 54% · ▼ 54 pts below district

▼ 55 pts below state median · ▼ 50 pts below county median

Grade 627%

School 27% · District 47% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 35 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 723%

School 23% · District 43% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 814%

School 14% · District 47% · ▼ 33 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 368%

School 68% · District 51% · ▲ 17 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 50% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 519%

School 19% · District 50% · ▼ 30 pts below district

▼ 35 pts below state median · ▼ 26 pts below county median

Grade 658%

School 58% · District 49% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 740%

School 40% · District 48% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

Grade 847%

School 47% · District 47%

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Science

Grade 521%

School 21% · District 52% · ▼ 31 pts below district

▼ 32 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 823%

School 23% · District 37% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income50%Higher-income64%14 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income36%Higher-income44%8 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income37%Higher-income53%16 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income26%Higher-income27%1 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income24%Higher-income23%1 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income13%Higher-income14%1 pp gap