LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL

LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL is one of the expansive 9-12 campuss in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, part of LEON, with 1,881 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 82% bigger than the state mean of about 1,035.

Within LEON, which oversees 51 schools and 31,579 students, LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL shows that 70% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 9% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Leon County's rate of about 41%.

With demographic context factored in, LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.8%; this one delivers 68.7%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Leon County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,287 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL is one of 63 public schools in Leon County (combined enrollment of about 35,246 students).

KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 75.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL has declined 9%, going from 2,077 students in 2018 to 1,881 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 76% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 26.1:1 in 2025.

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