The Bridge to Success Academy Middle School, Jacksonville FL

Original Research by School Decision on The Bridge to Success Academy Middle School

The Bridge to Success Academy Middle School sits on Moncrief Road in Jacksonville, a part of the city that sits well outside the riverfront transformation underway downtown. The school serves grades four through eight and is classified as an alternative school within Duval County Public Schools. Understanding what that designation means in practice matters here: alternative schools typically serve students who have faced circumstances that made a traditional school setting difficult, whether academic, behavioral, or personal. The school does not operate as a charter and carries no magnet designation.

The student body is predominantly Black, with smaller shares of Hispanic, white, and multiracial students. A very large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic conditions of the families the school serves. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in the data provided.

State assessment results from Florida's FAST and Science assessments are reported here, and they are low across every grade and subject. In math, proficiency rates across grades range from very modest to quite low, with the youngest grade tested showing the weakest results and the older middle grades showing somewhat higher but still limited proficiency. In ELA, the pattern is similar: only a fraction of students in any grade tested at proficient levels, with fifth grade the strongest and the youngest grade the weakest. Science results at the tested grades follow the same general pattern. These numbers are substantially below typical state averages for their grade bands.

A parent reading this should understand that results like these are common in alternative schools, where the student population often includes young people who arrive with significant learning gaps, disrupted schooling histories, or other compounding challenges. The school's measured role is to serve as a bridge back into a more stable educational pathway, not to replicate what a traditional school does. That context does not make the academic picture a comfortable one, but it frames what the school is designed to do. A parent would do well to ask the school directly about how student progress is tracked from entry to exit, what supports are in place, and what the pathway looks like for students who stabilize and want to transition back to a traditional setting or advance to high school.

No program offerings, course access data, attendance figures, or discipline data were available in the information provided. Chronic absenteeism and graduation rate data were also not applicable or not present.

The housing market immediately around the school's zip code reflects some of the most affordable prices in Duval County, well below Florida's statewide median and far below national norms. Home values in this part of Jacksonville have softened recently, while rents have edged upward slightly. For a family renting in this area, the rent-to-income calculation sits at a relatively manageable level compared to many urban markets, though the broader Jacksonville metro is being described publicly as one of the faster-growing housing markets in the country, with substantial downtown development underway. That growth is concentrated farther from Moncrief Road's neighborhood, which has a distinct character from the more visible transformation happening along the St. Johns River.

Publicly reported information indicates Jacksonville's economy draws on health care, military, logistics, and financial services as anchors, and the metro is growing. What that growth means for the immediate neighborhood around this school is less clear from the data available.

The Duval County district brief search did not return confirmed information about recent district-level changes, so district priorities and initiatives were left out rather than guessed at.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 410%

School 10% · District 60% · ▼ 50 pts below district

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

Grade 55%

School 5% · District 54% · ▼ 49 pts below district

▼ 50 pts below state median · ▼ 45 pts below county median

Grade 619%

School 19% · District 47% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 43 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 736%

School 36% · District 43% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 827%

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

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 46%

School 6% · District 50% · ▼ 43 pts below district

▼ 48 pts below state median · ▼ 40 pts below county median

Grade 520%

School 20% · District 50% · ▼ 29 pts below district

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

Grade 628%

School 28% · District 49% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 32 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 722%

School 22% · District 48% · ▼ 26 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 822%

School 22% · District 47% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 32 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Science

Grade 515%

School 15% · District 52% · ▼ 37 pts below district

▼ 38 pts below state median · ▼ 31 pts below county median

Grade 813%

School 13% · District 37% · ▼ 24 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 5Lower-income18%Higher-income27%9 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income25%Higher-income14%12 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income19%Higher-income32%13 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income7%Higher-income0%7 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income38%Higher-income30%8 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income23%Higher-income42%19 pp gap