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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
740
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEON·NCES 120111002473
KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
8037 DEER LK E, TALLAHASSEE, FL 32312 · (850) 921-1265 · Leon County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL740 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
102 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 | 14 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 113 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 117 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 119 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 143 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (113) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (117).
Student demographics
50%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
80.1%
FL avg 56.7% . +5.4pp since 2023
Math
82.1%
FL avg 58.9% . +5.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 5 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 | 80.1% | 82.1% |
| 2023-24 | 74.7% | 77.0% |
% 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
78.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.3%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% 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 KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (78.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 740 | 13.8% | 78.7% |
| HICKORY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAINT JOHNS | 669 | 13.8% | 80.4% |
| TIMBERLIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ST AUGUSTINE | 634 | 14.5% | 76.2% |
| DESOTO TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 652 | 15.2% | 68.9% |
| CUNNINGHAM CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAINT JOHNS | 730 | 15.9% | 73.0% |
| VIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VIERA | 885 | 8.5% | 86.8% |
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 KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Leon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.7% | #209 of 2,136 | #3 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.1% | #225 of 2,149 ▲ 82 | #2 of 28 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #151 of 2,149 ▲ 86 | #2 of 28 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 740 | #594 of 2,267 | #4 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #714 of 2,077 | #18 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.6% | #1,389 of 2,108 | #17 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.8% | #2,081 of 2,188 | #27 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #747 of 1,374 | #13 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
740
-56 (-7%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 782
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 15.0:1
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 | 740 | 49.1 | 15.1:1 | 14% (102) |
| 2023-24 | 758 | 48.1 | 15.8:1 | 17% (131) |
| 2022-23 | 777 | 49 | 15.9:1 | 17% (131) |
| 2020-21 | 796 | 53 | 15.0:1 | 13% (101) |
| 2017-18 | 860 | 53 | 16.2:1 | 14% (117) |
| 2015-16 | 832 | 54 | 15.4:1 | 12% (102) |
| 2010-11 | 955 | 58 | 16.5:1 | 10% (96) |
| 2000-01 | 990 | 53 | 18.7:1 | 7% (65) |
| 1990-91 | 782 | 38 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
A medium-sized elementary school in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of LEON. The school enrolls 740 students, from pre-K through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Florida is about 604, so this school runs 23% bigger than that.
The district for KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is LEON, with 51 schools and 31,579 students.
White students make up a majority at KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at 69%. The remaining shares are 11% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Leon County's population at about 55%. Pick two students at random and there is a 50% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 49.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 15.1:1. This ratio sits 2.4 below the 17.5:1 average for elementary schools in Florida. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 14% in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Leon County averages 41%, higher than here.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4.4 points above its prediction. Actual: 78.7%. Predicted: 74.3%.
Census Bureau estimates for Leon County show that the median household income is $66,287, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 63 public schools in the county.
LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL is the public school closest to KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 1.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is 6. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 74.6%; KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's is 78.7%, ranking 4th of 9.
In the federal locale system, KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment dropped 7% from its 2020-21 level of 796.
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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
- LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,881
- DEERLAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.9 mi · 876
- DESOTO TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.2 mi · 652
- HAWKS RISE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.5 mi · 752
- ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.5 mi · 807
- WILLIAM J MONTFORD III MIDDLE SCHOOL4.6 mi · 1,016
Frequently asked questions
About KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 740 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 49 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.1:1.
What is the student diversity at KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 69% White, 11% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
KILLEARN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by LEON.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.