Original Research by School Decision on Oak Hill Academy
Oak Hill Academy is a public special education school in Jacksonville, Florida, serving students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade within the Duval County Public Schools system. Its designation as a special education school means the entire program is built around students with disabilities and specialized learning needs rather than a general-education population. That framing shapes everything about what this school is and who it is designed to serve.
Because of its special-education designation, state assessment proficiency data is not reported for this school, and no comparison to other schools or districts in Duval County is available. This is common for schools of this type: the student population served may include grade levels that are not tested under standard state assessments, or individual education plans may place students outside the typical testing framework. A parent should not read the absence of proficiency data as a performance signal; it reflects the school's population and purpose. There is also no graduation rate, as the school does not serve high school grades.
The student body is racially and ethnically diverse, with Black students making up the largest share, followed by white, Hispanic, and Asian students, with smaller numbers of students identifying as two or more races. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating that a substantial portion of families come from lower-income households. Data on English learner enrollment and the formal IEP rate were not reported in the available data, which is somewhat unusual for a school classified specifically as a special education school; a parent would be well served to ask the school directly about the full range of disability categories and program types served.
The school is located on Daughtry Boulevard in Jacksonville's westside, a largely residential and suburban area of the city. Jacksonville itself is a sprawling, car-dependent metro, and this part of the city is no exception. Publicly reported data describes Jacksonville as one of the faster-growing metro areas in the country, with a downtown undergoing significant residential and mixed-use development, though the school's westside location sits removed from that activity. Housing in the zip code surrounding the school runs well below both the state and national medians, making the area among the more affordable entry points in Duval County. Rents have edged upward modestly over the past year while home values have dipped slightly. The broader Jacksonville economy is anchored by health care, military employment at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, logistics, and financial services.
The Duval County district brief returned limited information; no specific recent district-level program or policy changes were confirmed, so those are left out here rather than estimated.
For a family whose child has been referred to or placed at a school of this type, the primary questions are usually clinical and programmatic rather than academic-ranking ones: what disability categories the school serves, how staffing and therapy services are structured, and how transition planning works as students approach middle school age and beyond. The available data does not answer those questions, and a direct conversation with the school's administration and the district's exceptional student education office would give a clearer picture of fit than any external data source can.
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