FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL

FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school of average-sized scale in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, part of LEON, enrolling 735 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within LEON, which oversees 51 schools and 31,579 students, FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder reads as 10% White, 10% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Leon County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Leon County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.9%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Leon County put median household income runs about $66,287, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Leon County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,246 students), of which FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

JAMES RICKARDS HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.4%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 834 (now 735). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 5% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.