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TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL
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FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL
TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL is a reasonably sized unified-grade school in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, one of the schools within LEON. The school teaches 345 students in grades pre-K through 12.
LEON runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 31,579 students. TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
On demographics, TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL reports that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 25% Black, 13% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 55% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.1%; this one delivers 45.7%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Leon County put median household earnings sit near $66,287, 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), TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.
The school occupies a small-town site. TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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