Original Research by School Decision on River City Science Academy Southeast
River City Science Academy Southeast was a charter school located on Beach Boulevard in Jacksonville, Florida, serving middle school grades. The school is now closed, as reflected in its official operational status, and prospective families searching for it should know it is no longer enrolling students.
Because the school is closed, most of the data one would ordinarily use to describe an active school is absent. Academic performance results, enrollment figures, demographic composition, staffing information, attendance patterns, and program offerings are all missing from the available record. That is a function of the school's closed status rather than a gap in reporting about an operating institution. A comparison against other Duval County schools was not available in the data either.
What the record does show is that the school operated as a charter within the Duval County Public Schools system and was classified as a regular public school serving middle grades. Its Beach Boulevard address placed it in the Southside corridor of Jacksonville, a part of the city that is broadly suburban and car-dependent, sitting within a large and sprawling municipality whose housing market has recently been described publicly as one where migration and inventory meet affordability. Home values in the zip code sit modestly below Florida's statewide median, and rents have been roughly flat in recent months. Jacksonville itself is in a period of substantial growth, with downtown in particular drawing major residential and commercial investment, though the Southside area where this school was located is more of an established suburban commercial corridor than part of that downtown transformation.
For families who encountered River City Science Academy Southeast while searching for middle school options in eastern Jacksonville, the school is no longer an option. Duval County Public Schools and other active charters in the area would be the appropriate next places to look. We looked for any district-level information about recent changes or transitions that might help explain the closure, but that research did not produce confirmed details, so we have left that question open rather than speculate.
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