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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
457
Middle
DISTRICT 763 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEON·NCES 120111001180
GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
800 ALABAMA ST, TALLAHASSEE, FL 32304 · (850) 488-8436 · Leon County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL457 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 2% of Florida public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.9:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
338 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 143 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 165 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 149 | 33% |
Student demographics
38%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
25.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +2.8pp since 2023
Math
29.3%
FL avg 58.9% . +1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.0% | 29.3% |
| 2023-24 | 22.1% | 27.7% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
29.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.1%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (29.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 457 | 74.0% | 29.6% |
| CAROL CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL MIAMI GARDENS | 411 | 69.8% | 50.7% |
| NORTH BROWARD ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE MIDDLE NORTH LAUDERDALE | 373 | 76.7% | 61.4% |
| JEAN RIBAULT MIDDLE SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 530 | 70.8% | 35.4% |
| MATTHEW W. GILBERT MIDDLE SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 555 | 78.6% | 28.8% |
| R. FRANK NIMS MIDDLE SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 625 | 71.8% | 43.1% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Leon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #553 of 560 | #8 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.3% | #549 of 560 ▼ 11 | #8 of 8 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #555 of 560 ▼ 4 | #8 of 8 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 457 | #490 of 584 | #8 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #128 of 547 | #1 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.4% | #465 of 553 | #8 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.0% | #38 of 565 | #1 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.8% | #162 of 379 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle 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
457
-201 (-31%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 776
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 457 | 26 | 17.6:1 | 74% (338) |
| 2023-24 | 486 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 74% (360) |
| 2022-23 | 532 | 33 | 16.1:1 | 77% (408) |
| 2020-21 | 658 | 36 | 18.3:1 | 75% (491) |
| 2017-18 | 549 | 32 | 17.2:1 | 79% (432) |
| 2015-16 | 518 | 31 | 16.7:1 | 76% (392) |
| 2010-11 | 558 | 31 | 18.0:1 | 84% (468) |
| 2000-01 | 691 | 37 | 18.7:1 | 32% (220) |
| 1990-91 | 776 | 42 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small middle school in LEON, located in TALLAHASSEE, Florida. The school counted 457 students in 2024-25, covering grades 6 through 8. That is 42% below the average of about 794 students for middle schools in Florida.
GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the 51 schools that make up LEON (31,579 students in total).
At GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL, 77% of students are Black. Smaller groups are 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 4% White. For comparison, the population of Leon County is roughly 30% Black. The diversity index for GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is 38%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 26 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 17.6:1. The gap from the 19.6:1 average for middle schools in Florida is 2.0 students per teacher. The school reported 74% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 33 points above the 41% average for public schools in Leon County.
GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 2% of Florida public middle schools.
GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 14.5 points (29.6% versus 44.1%), a bottom-10% result in Florida on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Leon County show median household income comes to about $66,287, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 63 public schools in the county, enrolling about 35,246, GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL among them.
RUEDIGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest public school to GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 29.6% is below the 48.8% average for nearby schools.
NCES assigns GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A 31% decline took enrollment from 658 in 2020-21 to 457 in 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
Other Griffin Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Griffin Middle. GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 3.
- Griffin Middle SchoolSmyrna, GA · 991 students
- Griffin Middle SchoolFRISCO, TX · 685 students
Nearby schools
- RUEDIGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 504
- JOHN G RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 608
- RAA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 928
- AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,388
- THE SCHOOL OF ARTS & SCIENCES CENTRE1.3 mi · 448
- LEON HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 1,793
Frequently asked questions
About GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 457 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.6:1 students per teacher at GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 4% White, 12% Hispanic, 77% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GRIFFIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by LEON in Leon County.
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