NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools FL

Best-Resourced Schools in Saint Johns, FL

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

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10
Schools
13,751
Students
42.8/100
Avg Resource Index
17.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Saint Johns has more public-school enrollment than 87% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Saint Johns 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

7 of Saint Johns's 10 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 14-point gap between Julington Creek Elementary School and Bartram Trail High School shows the range hidden by Saint Johns'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 13%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
60th percentile
Teacher staffing
33rd percentile

Creekside High School accounts for 18.0% of all Saint Johns public-school enrollment

That concentration means Saint Johns-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Saint Johns school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities

Saint Johns school enrollment ranges from 669 students (lowest) to 2,479 students (highest), a spread of 1,810 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Saint Johns operates one school district — a single-district system

Saint Johns'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

Saint Johns student-teacher ratio is 17.1:1 — 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 Saint Johns is typically wider than the Saint Johns-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Julington Creek Elementary School 49
2. Patriot Oaks Academy 46
3. Liberty Pines Academy 45
4. Durbin Creek Elementary School 45
5. Hickory Creek Elementary School 45
6. Cunningham Creek Elementary School 44
7. Switzerland Point Middle School 43
8. Creekside High School 38
9. Fruit Cove Middle School 38
10. Bartram Trail High School 35

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Saint Johns

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 Durbin Creek Elementary School 67.0/100
  2. 2 Fruit Cove Middle School 58.9/100
  3. 3 Liberty Pines Academy 58.7/100
  4. 4 Patriot Oaks Academy 58.1/100
  5. 5 Cunningham Creek Elementary School 55.1/100

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Which Saint Johns school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Julington Creek Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Saint Johns schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Saint Johns, FL? ▼

Saint Johns has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 13,751 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 17.1:1.

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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.