Deaf/Blind operates 5 public schools serving 497 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Florida. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 2 combined, 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in St. Johns County.
a 73.8:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 26.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 45.4% White, 24.9% Hispanic or Latino, 19.1% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Deaf Middle School (Fsdb), with a diversity index of 72.1/100.
Its largest campus is Deaf High School (Fsdb), enrolling 179 students (35% of the district's total enrollment).
Deaf High School (Fsdb) accounts for 35.0% of all Deaf/Blind student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Deaf/Blind-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: high. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates 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.
Deaf/Blind school enrollment varies 2.8× across entities
Deaf/Blind school enrollment ranges from 65 students (lowest) to 179 students (highest), a spread of 114 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
The reported share is at least 75%, indicating a high concentration of measured economic need. 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.
Deaf/Blind student-counselor ratio is 74:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Deaf/Blind chronic absenteeism rate is 26.4% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Deaf/Blind is typically wider than the Deaf/Blind-aggregate figure suggests.