W T MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

W T MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier primary school in TALLAHASSEE, Florida, operated by LEON, enrolls 519 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 51 schools in LEON (31,579 students total), W T MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, W T MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 33% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Leon County as a whole is about 30% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at W T MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, W T MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.2%; this one delivers 58.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Leon County) records that median household income runs about $66,287, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. W T MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 63 public schools in Leon County (combined enrollment of about 35,246 students).

Nearest neighbor: RENAISSANCE ACADEMY, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around W T MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), W T MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 59.1%.

W T MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 662 students in 2018 compared to 519 in 2025.

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