Seaside Community Charter School, Jacksonville FL

Original Research by School Decision on Seaside Community Charter School

Seaside Community Charter School sits along Old St. Augustine Road in the Southside corridor of Jacksonville, a suburban stretch that sits well removed from the city's downtown riverfront but close to the commercial density of the Baymeadows and St. Johns Town Center areas. Jacksonville itself is one of the faster-growing metro areas in the country, publicly reported as a place where migration and available housing inventory have kept prices more accessible than in comparable Sun Belt cities, though the local housing market here shows values roughly in line with the state median, with rents that have ticked up slightly year over year. Families considering the school should know they are looking at a suburban, car-dependent part of a sprawling city, not a walkable neighborhood setting.

The school is a charter serving kindergarten through eighth grade, operating under the Duval County Public Schools umbrella. Enrollment sits at a mid-sized level for that grade band, with the kindergarten through second-grade cohorts noticeably larger than the upper middle school grades, where the eighth-grade class is considerably smaller. Whether that reflects attrition, enrollment patterns, or the school's growth trajectory is worth asking the school directly.

The student body is predominantly white, with Hispanic students making up the next largest group, and smaller shares of students who identify as two or more races, Black, or Asian. The share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch is strikingly low, one of the defining characteristics of this school's composition. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what was provided.

On the Florida FAST assessments, the school's ELA results are its clearest strength. Across third through seventh grade, ELA proficiency rates run solidly in the low-to-mid sixties, with third grade reaching the mid-sixties, and sixth grade slightly higher. The picture shifts in eighth grade, where ELA proficiency drops into the high forties, a meaningful step down from the grades below it. Parents of middle schoolers may want to ask the school what is driving that pattern.

Math results are more variable. Fourth and sixth grade proficiency comes in around the low sixties, which is reasonably solid. Third and fifth grade land near or just below fifty percent. Seventh grade sits in the mid-fifties. Eighth grade math, though, is the school's sharpest soft spot: proficiency there is quite low, far below every other grade tested. That is a result a parent with a child approaching eighth grade should ask the school about specifically.

Science, tested in fifth and eighth grade, follows a similar arc. Fifth grade science proficiency is just under sixty percent, a creditable result. Eighth grade science proficiency falls to the mid-thirties, consistent with the pattern of weaker outcomes at the top of the grade band. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible from this data alone to say whether eighth-grade performance has been stable, improving, or declining.

No AP or dual-enrollment pathways exist here, since the school ends at eighth grade. The comparison fact-set for Duval County had too few districts in the cohort to produce a meaningful positioning on proficiency, graduation, or absenteeism, so those comparisons were not usable. No information was available on program offerings, staffing ratios, discipline practices, or attendance patterns.

For a family in the Southside area of Jacksonville looking for a smaller, choice-based environment for elementary and early middle grades, Seaside operates in a demographically specific setting with a very low economic-disadvantage rate and solid elementary ELA performance. The eighth-grade results across all three tested subjects are the clearest area to probe before enrolling a child who will be at the school through the top grade.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 59% · ▼ 12 pts below district

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

Grade 461%

School 61% · District 60% · ▲ 1 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 548%

School 48% · District 54% · ▼ 6 pts below district

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

Grade 661%

School 61% · District 47% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 756%

School 56% · District 43% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 812%

School 12% · District 47% · ▼ 35 pts below district

▼ 39 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 365%

School 65% · District 51% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 461%

School 61% · District 50% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 561%

School 61% · District 50% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 666%

School 66% · District 49% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 762%

School 62% · District 48% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 849%

School 49% · District 47% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

Science

Grade 559%

School 59% · District 52% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 835%

School 35% · District 37% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

This schoolDUVAL, same grade

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.