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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
460
Elementary
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LEON·NCES 120111002568
SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3801 FRED GEORGE RD, TALLAHASSEE, FL 32303 · (850) 488-6225 · Leon County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL460 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of Florida public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
14.4:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
305 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 | 20 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
43%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
46.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +9.6pp since 2023
Math
62.0%
FL avg 58.9% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.9% | 62.0% |
| 2023-24 | 37.3% | 54.1% |
% 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
45.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (45.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 460 | 66.3% | 45.8% |
| RUEDIGER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE | 504 | 68.1% | 47.9% |
| GARDEN CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL JACKSONVILLE | 390 | 63.1% | 40.5% |
| WILLIAM FRANGUS ELEMENTARY ORLANDO | 430 | 66.5% | 44.3% |
| POINCIANA STEM ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL BOYNTON BEACH | 430 | 62.8% | 57.5% |
| MORROW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NORTH LAUDERDALE | 512 | 65.4% | 43.9% |
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 SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Leon County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.8% | #1,532 of 2,136 | #17 of 28 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #1,008 of 2,149 ▲ 181 | #11 of 28 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.9% | #1,448 of 2,149 ▲ 311 | #18 of 28 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 460 | #1,577 of 2,267 | #21 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #454 of 2,077 | #10 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.6% | #1,607 of 2,108 | #23 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.3% | #625 of 2,188 | #10 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.6% | #310 of 1,374 | #3 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
460
-45 (-9%) vs 2020
-52% since 1990-91, when it was 958
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 460 | 32 | 14.4:1 | 66% (305) |
| 2023-24 | 419 | 32 | 13.1:1 | 64% (269) |
| 2022-23 | 423 | 30.5 | 13.9:1 | 69% (292) |
| 2020-21 | 505 | 37 | 13.7:1 | 66% (335) |
| 2017-18 | 618 | 42 | 14.7:1 | 61% (380) |
| 2015-16 | 690 | 43 | 16.1:1 | 66% (452) |
| 2010-11 | 641 | 41 | 15.6:1 | 65% (419) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 36 | 18.6:1 | 26% (175) |
| 1990-91 | 958 | 54 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Among the schools in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, is SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small elementary school. It serves 460 students in pre-K through 5. For comparison, elementary schools in Florida average about 604 students.
SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by LEON, whose 51 schools enroll 31,579 students.
At 74%, Black students outnumber all other groups at SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL combined. It is also 10% White, 8% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Leon County's residents are about 30% Black, 44 points below the school's share. By the diversity index, SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes in at 43%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 14.4:1, with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among elementary schools in Florida, the typical ratio is 17.5:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 66%. That rate is above the 41% average among public schools in Leon County.
SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is graded C by allk12, scoring above 28% of Florida public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in Florida with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 47.9%. SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 45.8%.
SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is located in Leon County, where median household income is about $66,287, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 63 public schools in Leon County, which together enroll about 35,246 students.
TALLAHASSEE SCHOOL OF MATH & SCIENCES is the closest public school, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 7 closest schools with test data, this one included, SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
The number of students dropped from 505 to 460 over 4 years.
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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
- TALLAHASSEE SCHOOL OF MATH & SCIENCES0.9 mi · 621
- CANOPY OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 617
- ASTORIA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 479
- GRETCHEN EVERHART SCHOOL2.5 mi · 91
- AMOS P. GODBY HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 1,388
- SEALEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.9 mi · 369
Frequently asked questions
About SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 460 students in grades PK-05.
Is SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 14.4:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 10% White, 8% Hispanic, 74% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is SPRINGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
SPRINGWOOD 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.