BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a reasonably sized elementary school in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL works with 611 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by LEON.

LEON comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 31,579 students; BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 80%. Beyond that, the school reports 8% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 83% of students at BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Leon County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.7%, the actual is 49.8%, a residual of +10.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Leon County shows median household earnings sit near $66,287, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 63 public schools in Leon County (combined enrollment of about 35,246 students).

R. FRANK NIMS MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 6% since 2018, when it stood at 649 (now 611). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 93% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.