Lone Star Mycroschool Inc

Lone Star High School is a small, traditional public high school in Jacksonville, FL, serving 243 students in grades 9-12 as part of the Duval County Public School District. The school is located in a densely populated area, less than half a mile from Terry Parker High School, but it faces severe and persistent challenges that set it apart from nearby schools.

The most critical issue at Lone Star is its catastrophic chronic absenteeism rate, which reached 99.4% in the 2023-2024 school year—more than double the rate of the next closest traditional school, Englewood High School (64.6%), and nearly 2.5 times the district average (44.8%). This attendance crisis is paired with a critically low graduation rate of 55.3%, which is nearly 40 percentage points below the district average of 94.3% and far lower than nearby schools like Terry Parker (96.8%) and Englewood (92.9%). Academic performance is equally alarming, with proficiency rates in the single digits for Algebra 1 (0%), Geometry (3%), and Biology 1 (9%), and the highest proficiency in US History at just 15%. The school also has an extremely high student-to-teacher ratio of 40.5:1, nearly double that of Terry Parker (22.9:1) and Sandalwood High School (26:1).

Perhaps the most telling comparison is to the Pretrial Detention Facility, a school for incarcerated youth, which has a higher proficiency rate in US History (19% vs. 15%) and a comparable graduation rate (47.8% vs. 55.3%). This stark contrast highlights the extreme nature of the challenges at Lone Star, where a free public school is performing on par with a facility for detained juveniles. The school has earned a 0-star rating for six consecutive years and consistently ranks in the bottom 10% of all high schools in Florida. While per-student spending ($9,020) is in line with other area schools, the data suggests that Lone Star is trapped in a crisis loop of absenteeism, low academic success, and insufficient support, requiring radical intervention beyond standard measures.