SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 2813 RIDGEWAY ST, in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary campus that hosts 459 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by LEON. Enrollment runs roughly 24% leaner than the state mean of about 604.

LEON runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 31,579 students. SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 7% White, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Leon County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 40.9%, a residual of -1.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Leon County put median household earnings sit near $66,287, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Leon County's 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,246 students), SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LEON CO JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 60.5%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 459). White enrollment moved from 13% to 7% across the same window.

On the community side, members of the SABAL PALM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.