FRUIT COVE MIDDLE SCHOOL
A public middle school for grades 6 to 8 in Saint Johns, Florida 32259
3180 RACE TRACK RD, Saint Johns, Florida 32259. (904) 547-7880.
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The short answer
Record last released by NCES on Jul 1, 2026.
- 13.8% of students chronically absent, 2022-23 Florida: 33.8%
- 1,157 students, 2024-25
- 20.7 students per teacher
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
How do students fare?
13.8% of students chronically absent in 2022-23
Florida: 33.8%. Its district: 17.8%.
Missing 10% or more of school days: 169 of the 1,223 enrolled on October 1.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
NCES, school membership, 2022-23. Released Jan 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23. Released Dec 11, 2024. Updated yearly.
What kind of school is it, and who does it serve?
- A public middle school for grades 6 to 8.
- Open in NCES’s 2025-26 directory, which is still preliminary.
- In 2024-25, 13% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 147 of the 1,157 enrolled on October 1: 121 for free lunch and 26 for reduced-price.
- NCES counts 21 students directly certified for free meals in 2024-25, without an application, through their families’ part in programs such as SNAP.
- Around the school, a family with children aged 5 to 17 has an income of about 515% of the federal poverty threshold for its size (100% is at the threshold), by NCES’s 2021-22 estimate from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey of 2018-2022; its standard error is 62 points.
- That describes the school’s neighbourhood, which NCES says may differ from the neighbourhoods its students live in.
NCES, school directory, 2025-26 (preliminary). Released Jul 1, 2026. Updated yearly.
NCES, Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Released Dec 29, 2025. Updated yearly.
NCES, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22. Released Oct 15, 2024. Updated yearly.
What did the school report?
What the school reported to the Office for Civil Rights for 2023-24. These are the school’s own counts, not findings.
- The 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection has no record for this school.
Who teaches and supports students?
20.7 students per teacher, 2024-25
The middle of the 12 nearest public high schools had 20.1.
NCES counts teachers in full-time equivalents.
NCES, Common Core of Data, 2024-25. Released Dec 29, 2025. Updated yearly.
| Measure | This school |
|---|---|
| Teachers, 2024-25 | 56 |
| Students per teacher, 2024-25 | 20.7 |
How does it compare nearby?
- Among the 12 nearest public middle schools in Florida, within 13.8 miles, the middle value for chronic absence in 2022-23 was 32.4%; this one had 13.8%.
- Students per teacher in 2024-25, by NCES’s counts: 20.7 here; the middle value among them was 20.1.
U.S. Department of Education, chronic absenteeism, 2022-23. Released Nov 7, 2024. Updated yearly.
| School | Miles away | Chronically absent, 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|
| FRUIT COVE MIDDLE SCHOOL This school | 13.8% | |
| SWITZERLAND POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL | 5.3 | 15.0% |
| MANDARIN MIDDLE SCHOOL | 5.5 | 26.3% |
| TWIN LAKES ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL | 8.5 | 41.0% |
| ORANGE PARK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL | 9.8 | 50.7% |
| ALFRED I. DUPONT MIDDLE SCHOOL | 10.2 | 34.5% |
| LAKESIDE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL | 10.3 | 30.2% |
| GREEN COVE SPRINGS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL | 10.7 | 36.9% |
| SOUTHSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL | 11.2 | 72.2% |
| ALICE B. LANDRUM MIDDLE SCHOOL | 11.8 | 11.8% |
| PACETTI BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL | 12.3 | 14.9% |
| WESTSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL | 13.8 | 68.1% |
Who runs it?
- Run by ST. JOHNS, its local education agency in NCES’s directory.
- District spending, fiscal year 2024: ST. JOHNS spent $10,280 per student, by the Census Bureau’s count of the district’s spending and its 51,434 students, of which $5,780 went on instruction and $4,101 on support services such as administration, buildings and transport.
- That is the district’s figure across all its schools, not this school’s own: its day-to-day spending on salaries, benefits, services and supplies, not on construction, equipment, debt or payments to other school systems.
NCES, school directory, 2025-26 (preliminary). Released Jul 1, 2026. Updated yearly.
U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables. Released May 7, 2026. Updated yearly.
Has anything been proven against it?
- Federal school data don’t record findings against a school: the counts here are what the school reported, and the Office for Civil Rights’ own investigations aren’t included.
What the record doesn’t say
- Federal school data arrive one to three years after the school year they describe, so each figure here carries its own year.
- To protect students’ privacy, ED adds or takes away one at random from chronic absence counts of four or fewer, so a small count may be one off.
- ED publishes each school’s test results in reading and language arts and in mathematics, but they aren’t loaded here yet.
Sources
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National Center for Education Statistics, School directory, 2025-26 (preliminary).
Released Jul 1, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 2024-25.
Released Dec 29, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, School locations, 2024-25.
Released Dec 19, 2025 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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National Center for Education Statistics, EDGE school neighborhood poverty estimates, 2021-22 (American Community Survey, 2018-2022).
Released Oct 15, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2024: individual unit tables.
Released May 7, 2026 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. Public domain (a U.S. government work), cited to the Census Bureau as it asks.
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National Center for Education Statistics, School membership, 2022-23 (v.1a).
Released Jan 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0.
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U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, Chronic absenteeism, 2022-23.
Released Nov 7, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).
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U.S. Department of Education, ED Data Express, ED Data Express: four-year adjusted-cohort graduation rates and cohort counts (FS150, FS151), school level, 2020-21 to 2022-23.
Released Dec 11, 2024 and checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated yearly. CC0 (as data.ed.gov lists EDFacts data).
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