BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an average-sized primary school in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, operated by LEON, enrolls 696 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 51 schools in LEON (31,579 students total), BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 14% Black, 11% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. Compared to Leon County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Leon County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.8%, the actual is 69.5%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Leon County shows median household income runs about $66,287, 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), BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SWIFT CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.1%.

BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 761 (now 696). White enrollment moved from 64% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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