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Enrollment
752
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEON·NCES 120111002999
HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
205 MEADOW RIDGE DR, TALLAHASSEE, FL 32312 · (850) 487-4733 · Leon County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL752 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 88% of Florida public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
112 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 | 10 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 128 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 115 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 150 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 139 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
65%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
83.0%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.8pp since 2023
Math
85.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 85.5% |
| 2023-24 | 77.2% | 80.5% |
% 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
81.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.7%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (81.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 752 | 14.9% | 81.2% |
| IMAGINE SCHOOL AT LAND O' LAKES LAND O LAKES | 913 | 11.5% | 70.0% |
| RIVER CITY SCIENCE ACADEMY SOUTHEAST JACKSONVILLE | 726 | 21.1% | 76.4% |
| EQUESTRIAN TRAILS ELEMENTARY WELLINGTON | 834 | 15.2% | 85.4% |
| BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TAMPA | 852 | 10.3% | 87.6% |
| CHOICES IN LEARNING CHARTER WINTER SPRINGS | 685 | 17.7% | 88.8% |
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 HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Leon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.2% | #124 of 2,136 | #1 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.5% | #133 of 2,149 ▲ 80 | #1 of 28 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.0% | #88 of 2,149 ▲ 86 | #1 of 28 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 752 | #567 of 2,267 | #3 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #606 of 2,077 | #15 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.6% | #599 of 2,108 | #6 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.9% | #2,065 of 2,188 | #25 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.6% | #766 of 1,374 | #14 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
752
-28 (-4%) vs 2020
+6% since 2000-01, when it was 710
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 752 | 50.9 | 14.8:1 | 15% (112) |
| 2023-24 | 800 | 49.9 | 16.0:1 | 18% (147) |
| 2022-23 | 805 | 48.4 | 16.6:1 | 13% (108) |
| 2020-21 | 780 | 50 | 15.6:1 | 11% (86) |
| 2017-18 | 870 | 56 | 15.5:1 | 15% (131) |
| 2015-16 | 850 | 53 | 16.0:1 | 14% (121) |
| 2010-11 | 832 | 51 | 16.3:1 | 10% (85) |
| 2000-01 | 710 | 42 | 16.9:1 | 10% (69) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, and it is part of LEON. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 752 students on the rolls. Elementary schools in Florida average about 604 students, which makes this school 25% above average.
LEON is the district for HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. It has 51 schools and 31,579 students.
About 55% of the student body at HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is White. Other groups make up 17% Asian, 11% Black, 10% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. Leon County residents are about 55% White, a similar share. A diversity index of 65% means there is a 65% chance two randomly chosen students at HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are from different groups.
HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reported 50.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 14.8:1. Elementary schools in Florida average 17.5:1, 2.7 more students per teacher than here. There are 112 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 15% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Leon County averages 41%, higher than here.
On the allk12 Grade, HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 88% of Florida public elementary schools.
HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 81.2% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 73.7%.
In Leon County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $66,287, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 63 public schools and about 35,246 students.
The closest school to HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is DESOTO TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, located about 3.3 miles away. In all, 6 other public schools sit within five miles of HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among its closest neighbors with test data, HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 1st of 9 on proficiency.
NCES assigns HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 780 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 752 by 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
- DESOTO TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.3 mi · 652
- KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 740
- GILCHRIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.9 mi · 857
- LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL4.0 mi · 1,881
- DEERLAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL4.1 mi · 876
- THE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ON THOMASVILLE4.7 mi · 461
Frequently asked questions
About HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 752 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.8:1 students per teacher at HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 55% White, 10% Hispanic, 11% Black, 17% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of LEON.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.