AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 1717 W THARPE ST, in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school that hosts 1,388 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within LEON. Enrollment runs roughly 34% above the state mean of about 1,035.

LEON runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 31,579 students. AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Black, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 11% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.5:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 57% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Leon County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Florida public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 52.4%; AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL posts 33.0%, -19.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Leon County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,287 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Leon County's 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,246 students), AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JOHN G RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 44.0%.

AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 4%: 1,338 students in 2018 compared to 1,388 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 8% to 15%.

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