Im going to be honest with you, this school is quite rigorous but the people here can manage. I am around some of Jacksonvilles smartest kids here and theyre in one of the worst neighborhoods. We need a better place to learn and grow. Some kids are actually under qualified here and need pre-school testing to get in.

This school has taught me a lot. Not just about academics, not just about the curriculum, but it has also helped me learn many social skill to obtain that will help me throughout my future. The staff is amazing, and just the thought of leaving this school and leaving these teachers, makes me really want to stay. I would hate leaving this school, to describe in in one word, I would use a-great-learning-environment (I know thats four words).

It is a good school. Staff is great to deal with and healthy atmosphere. Some teachers are horrible like Temples...she think she is on the top of the world and know everything. She is unfit to lead the robotics. Not fair at all, very selfish. Really wish if some other teacher take over that club.

Lots of fights, violence, racism, and bullying. I went here for less than a year and had to leave because teachers failed to grade work that was turned in, I was bullied constantly and beat up constantly. They did nothing about it. One of the times I was being beat up, I watched a teacher look over, wait for the group of students to stop beating me up, then came to help. I got punished worse than they did because I defended myself in a 6 on 1 fight. I was sexually assaulted, told teachers, and nothing was done. Had to deal with it for 2 months of the teacher laughing thinking it was a joke, and playing on his phone. The teachers fail to do their jobs correctly. The discipline system is horrible and punishes the victims. Yes the school has some good points, but is mostly a bad school that I do not recommend parents enroll their children into, for their safety, and education would be at risk.

All I am saying is that I hope nobody is lieing about this school because I am looking for a awesome middle School for my daughter and she is really interested in this one.....I just hope it is good school

I have been watching the growth and development of JWJ for the past 5 years and I have to say from the students to the staff the principle has really brought a spirit of excellence to that campus. They are not only a school but a village and thats what it takes it take to raise a child.

Unfortunately the magnet school model is a scheme to allow school districts to keep inner city properties rather than lose them due to poor performance. New schools should be built in expanding communities not funneling resources to these failing schools just to make high performing students commute, for hours a day, to rotting facilities. The JWJ campus is dated, filled with mostly 3rd hand furnishings and materials. We put our smell test aside to watch our kid experience a top rated Duval school. After a year of observing administration, teachers, attending meetings, and getting feedback from students. We were dumbfounded with the amount of disorganization and unnecessary strife. This isnt the first time these people have run a school.... Why does it feel that way? We concluded that this is the end product of the Duval magnet scheme. Why punish families by scaring them into spending many hours working the system so they can get their kid awarded a magnet school seat so they can escape their mediocre community school (that wouldnt be mediocre if they didnt ship out their highest performing students to magnets) Just so their kid spends an average of 40hrs/mo just getting to and from school, usually across dangerous roads during rush hour. Sell the properties, or demolish and take the loss. Duval is unnecessarily wearing out its best students. Build new schools in growing communities, develop community pride. Bus kids from blighted areas into the new schools. Why ship 50 buses of kids to JWJ and other magnets usually in blighted areas to save an outdated facility? How much fuel, pollution, risk, sleep, etc resources are wasted? Its like driving 20 mins in the opposite direction to save 10cents a gallon. Tell the Super/Sboard to quit scheming & band with other supers/boards to fight the local/state/fed for the money promised when they used education investment as an incentive to allow gambling, which is really just a tax on the poor. Instead of augmenting the ed budget was reduced and replaced w/ gambling $. The schools should be made of Gold! So while admin & some teachers are making high incomes they insist that there are no funds for supplies, enrichment or activities, yet they ask PARENTS, who often make much less and work much harder, to fund these school/community pride/enrichment activities that used to/should be funded w/tax+gambling.

GO TROJANS....James Weldon Johnston is an amazing school ...only the best students go there ....If you got what it takes come here for middle school .....I currently go here its really challenging but you can do it with so hard work ....GO TROJANS

Everyone talks about how great jwj is but the school is awful for two years in a row they had to fire my math teachers but they didnt replace them with Good ones they let us not get taught so I failed the algebra 1 honners eoc and they said it would be fine if we did (which alot of people did)and they lied because if you dont pass it YOU DONT GRADUATE.the teachers dont care about you having other classes that you need to do homework in so you get a load of hw.I had a 66%in a class and it was the second highest.Go to Darnall or anywhere else jwj just screwed me over all 3 years I went there.

I go to JWJ and its an awesome school. The curriculum is challenging but its to make you a better learner and student. JWJ is very versatile there is love, exceptince, and learning for all walks of life.

My son goes to JWJ! He is in 6th grade and he LOVES it! His teachers really care about him. The work load is rigorous, but manageable. The culture is celebratory and the students actually have some fun... amazing for a smart school! JWJ is so fortunate to have a principal who cares so much for each students success as a whole person. Middle school years are tough years. Im grateful my son is at JWJ!

My son is in 8th grade and he loves the school.

Hey I am Izzi I am in 7th grade and on the swim team. For everyone who thinks JWJ is all nerds you are DEAD WRONG. WE ARE CHAMPIONS WE ARE TROJANS! #undefeated!

Nice students, okay teachers, but slow, over-homeworked, & unorganized curriculum

I LOVE IT, it is the best school I have ever went to.

Hai, i go to this school and its amazing, challenging, but amazing

First year there and its awesome

Im going 2 be a trojan

There are rats and roaches. I. Am. Serious.

I love this school

Best school in the world

Ok

Beautiful campus

THIS SCHOOL ROCKS!!!!!!! I will be a trojan FOREVER!!!!!!! Say NO to Julia Landon!!!!!!