FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL

FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack multi-level schools in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, overseen by FAMU LAB SCH, with 519 students on its rolls from grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 353 students per school, that is 47% above typical.

FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL is a school of FAMU LAB SCH, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (91%). Beyond that, the school shows 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Leon County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.5:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 100% 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 north of Leon County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of +9.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Leon County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,287 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Leon County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,246 students), of which FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: R. FRANK NIMS MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL has fell 11%, going from 586 students in 2018 to 519 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 3% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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