LEON HIGH SCHOOL

LEON HIGH SCHOOL operates as a roomy four-year high school in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, one of the schools within LEON. Current enrollment sits at 1,793 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 73% above the state mean of about 1,035.

LEON HIGH SCHOOL is one of 51 schools operated by LEON, a district that teaches 31,579 students overall.

On the student-mix side, LEON HIGH SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% Black, 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting LEON HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 31% of students at LEON HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Leon County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, LEON HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 65.5%; LEON HIGH SCHOOL posts 50.8%, -14.7 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Leon County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,287 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Leon County's 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,246 students), LEON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ELIZABETH COBB MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEON HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEON HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. LEON HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 2,085 (now 1,793). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 54% to 40%. Class-load math has grew: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 in 2025.

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