NCES CCD 2024-25 22 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Orange Park, FL

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22 public K-12 schools in Orange Park from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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22
Schools
19,134
Students
41.4/100
Avg Resource Index
14:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Orange Park has more public-school enrollment than 92% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Orange Park sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

15 of Orange Park's 22 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 52-point gap between Clay Virtual Franchise and Orange Park High School shows the range hidden by Orange Park's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 8%
School count
Top 13%
Resource Index average
52nd percentile
Teacher staffing
67th percentile

Orange Park school enrollment varies 46× across entities

Orange Park school enrollment ranges from 50 students (lowest) to 2,307 students (highest), a spread of 2,257 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Orange Park reports 50.9% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Orange Park operates one school district — a single-district system

Orange Park's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Orange Park student-teacher ratio is 14.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Orange Park is typically wider than the Orange Park-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Clay Virtual Franchise 77
2. Pace Center for Girls Clay 76
3. Fleming Island Elementary School 51
4. Montclair Elementary School 51
5. Robert M. Paterson Elementary 49
6. Orange Park Elementary School 46
7. Discovery Oaks Elementary 42
8. Oakleaf Junior High 42
9. W E Cherry Elementary School 41
10. Oakleaf Village Elementary School 40
11. Oakleaf High School 38
12. Lakeside Junior High School 37
13. Argyle Elementary School 37
14. Plantation Oaks Elementary School 34
15. Ridgeview Elementary School 34
16. S Bryan Jennings Elementary School 34
17. Lakeside Elementary School 33
18. Ridgeview High School 32
19. Grove Park Elementary School 32
20. Fleming Island High School 31
21. Orange Park Junior High School 29
22. Orange Park High School 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Orange Park

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Oakleaf Village Elementary School 73.3/100
  2. 2 Discovery Oaks Elementary 72.8/100
  3. 3 Orange Park Junior High School 72.7/100
  4. 4 S Bryan Jennings Elementary School 72.4/100
  5. 5 Orange Park High School 72.0/100

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Which Orange Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Clay Virtual Franchise has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Orange Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 77/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Orange Park, FL? ▼

Orange Park has 22 public schools with a total enrollment of 19,134 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.