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If you could change one rule at APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
482
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEON·NCES 120111001192
APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
650 TROJAN TRL, TALLAHASSEE, FL 32311 · (850) 488-7110 · Leon County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL482 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% of Florida public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
314 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 14 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 20% larger than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
39.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.2pp since 2023
Math
49.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +11.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.9% | 49.3% |
| 2023-24 | 37.8% | 37.5% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (39.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 482 | 65.1% | 39.4% |
| GERTRUDE K. EDELMAN/SABAL PALM NORTH MIAMI BEACH | 476 | 63.4% | 50.7% |
| WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 430 | 66.5% | 44.3% |
| POINCIANA STEM ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL BOYNTON BEACH | 430 | 62.8% | 57.5% |
| SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 460 | 66.3% | 45.8% |
| RUEDIGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 504 | 68.1% | 47.9% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Leon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #1,844 of 2,136 | #23 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #1,595 of 2,149 ▲ 313 | #21 of 28 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #1,781 of 2,149 ▼ 37 | #23 of 28 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 482 | #1,489 of 2,267 | #16 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #1,310 of 2,077 | #26 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.0% | #1,407 of 2,108 | #18 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.1% | #676 of 2,188 | #12 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.8% | #308 of 1,374 | #2 of 24 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
482
-31 (-6%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 555
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 482 | 29 | 16.6:1 | 65% (314) |
| 2023-24 | 477 | 32 | 14.9:1 | 71% (341) |
| 2022-23 | 544 | 33 | 16.5:1 | 72% (394) |
| 2020-21 | 513 | 36 | 14.3:1 | 59% (304) |
| 2017-18 | 650 | 45 | 14.4:1 | 65% (422) |
| 2015-16 | 621 | 40 | 15.5:1 | 71% (439) |
| 2010-11 | 563 | 37 | 15.2:1 | 78% (441) |
| 2000-01 | 601 | 35 | 17.2:1 | 55% (332) |
| 1990-91 | 555 | 29 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Families in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, are served by APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 482 students. Against the 604-student average for elementary schools in Florida, enrollment here is 20% lower.
A total of 51 schools make up LEON, with 31,579 students enrolled.
Black students account for 69% of enrollment at APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Smaller groups are 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% White, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Leon County is roughly 30% Black. APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 49%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 16.6:1. That ratio is under the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 65% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 24 points above the 41% average for public schools in Leon County.
The allk12 Grade for APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is D. Compared with Florida public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 12% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 48.5% for APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The school posts 39.4%, 9.1 points below the prediction.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Leon County show that median household income is about $66,287, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 63 public schools in Leon County, which together enroll about 35,246 students.
The closest public school to APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is LEON COUNTY VIRTUAL SCHOOL FRANCHISE, about 0.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in 5th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 513 to 482. Students per teacher rose from 14.3 in 2020-21 to 16.6 in 2024-25.
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Leon County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
297,542
Census ACS
Median income
$66,287
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
63
35,246 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LEON
- LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,881 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,822 students
- LEON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,793 students
- JAMES RICKARDS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,718 students
- AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,388 students
- WILLIAM J MONTFORD III MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,016 students
Other schools in TALLAHASSEE
- LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,881 students
- FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOLCombined · 1,851 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,822 students
- LEON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,793 students
- JAMES RICKARDS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,718 students
- AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,388 students
Nearby schools
- LEON COUNTY VIRTUAL SCHOOL FRANCHISE0.2 mi · 88
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,822
- FLORIDA SCHOLARS ACADEMY1.5 mi · 1,024
- J MICHAEL CONLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT SOUTHWOOD1.6 mi · 693
- SWIFT CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL2.1 mi · 793
- RENAISSANCE ACADEMY2.3 mi · 243
Frequently asked questions
About APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 482 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 16.6:1 (29 FTE teachers).
How diverse is APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 5% White, 13% Hispanic, 69% Black, 3% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of LEON.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.