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Enrollment
466
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEON·NCES 120111002567
CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4774 CHAIRES CROSS RD, TALLAHASSEE, FL 32317 · (850) 488-5977 · Leon County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL466 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
204 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 | 15 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
61%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
58.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.9pp since 2023
Math
69.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +11.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 10 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 | 58.9% | 69.1% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 57.4% |
% 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
58.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.2%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (58.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 466 | 43.8% | 58.5% |
| SEASIDE CHARTER NORTH CAMPUS JACKSONVILLE | 496 | 41.1% | 36.4% |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY JACKSONVILLE | 468 | 46.4% | 56.0% |
| ODYSSEY PREPARATORY CHARTER ACADEMY PALM BAY | 462 | 42.6% | 59.5% |
| PINE FOREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 431 | 39.4% | 61.8% |
| CANOPY OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 617 | 45.5% | 45.3% |
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 CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Leon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #938 of 2,136 | #10 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #686 of 2,149 ▲ 360 | #6 of 28 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #887 of 2,149 ▲ 331 | #10 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 466 | #1,551 of 2,267 | #18 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #518 of 2,077 | #14 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.0% | #827 of 2,108 | #11 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.8% | #1,480 of 2,188 | #17 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.6% | #862 of 1,374 | #16 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
466
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 783
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 466 | 32 | 14.6:1 | 44% (204) |
| 2023-24 | 462 | 36 | 12.8:1 | 48% (224) |
| 2022-23 | 479 | 33 | 14.5:1 | 42% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 473 | 37 | 12.8:1 | 36% (170) |
| 2017-18 | 527 | 37 | 14.2:1 | 48% (251) |
| 2015-16 | 455 | 34 | 13.4:1 | 44% (200) |
| 2010-11 | 504 | 35 | 14.4:1 | 45% (226) |
| 2000-01 | 955 | 57 | 16.8:1 | 35% (334) |
| 1990-91 | 783 | 44 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Families in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, are served by CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small elementary school. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 466 students. Elementary schools in Florida have about 604 students on average; enrollment here is 23% lower.
LEON counts 31,579 students in its 51 schools, and CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
The share of White students at CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 52%, a majority. The school is also 34% Black, 7% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. Census estimates put Leon County at about 55% White, close to the school's figure. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 61%.
The school's 32 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 2.9 more students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 44% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
On BeatsExpectations, CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is within a point of its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
Looking at the county, Leon County, median household income comes to about $66,287, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The county has 63 public schools and about 35,246 students.
About 3.7 miles separate CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL from the closest public school, SWIFT CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes 2 other public schools. CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's average proficiency of 58.5% compares with 52.7% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school is in rural territory close to an urban area, according to its NCES locale (Rural: Fringe).
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (473) to 2024-25 (466). The school's ratio increased from 12.8:1 to 14.6:1 between 2020-21 and 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
- SWIFT CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL3.7 mi · 793
- BUCK LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.9 mi · 696
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL5.3 mi · 1,822
- RENAISSANCE ACADEMY5.4 mi · 243
- APALACHEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.6 mi · 482
- LEON COUNTY VIRTUAL SCHOOL FRANCHISE5.7 mi · 88
Frequently asked questions
About CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 466 students in grades PK-05.
Is CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the student diversity at CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 52% White, 7% Hispanic, 34% Black, 0% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
CHAIRES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LEON.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.