KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier elementary-level community in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, part of LEON, instructs 740 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 604 students per school, that is 23% larger than typical.

Within LEON, which oversees 51 schools and 31,579 students, KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 14% of students at KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Leon County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.3%, the actual is 78.7%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Leon County put the typical household earns roughly $66,287 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Leon County's 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,246 students), KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 1.2 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 74.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 860 students in 2018 compared to 740 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 78% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

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