TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL
TALLAHASSEE · FL · LEON · Public charter · K-12 combined
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- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL compares for families
What families should know about TALLAHASSEE CLASSICAL SCHOOL.
- ▸ LocallyFL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL, JAMES RICKARDS HIGH SCHOOL, St John Paul Ii Catholic High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -13.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 345 students:
≈ 178 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $11,602 per student in district revenue, the 178 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $2,065,156/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE |
Public · charter | 1.6 | 656 | -2.7% |
| JAMES RICKARDS HIGH SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE |
Public | 1.7 | 1,718 | +8.3% |
| St John Paul Ii Catholic High School Tallahassee |
Private | 1.9 | 190 | +12.4% |
| FLORIDA SCHOLARS ACADEMY TALLAHASSEE |
Public | 2.5 | 889 | — |
| FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE |
Public | 2.9 | 172 | -6.0% |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS TALLAHASSEE |
Public | 3.4 | 25 | — |
| LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL TALLAHASSEE |
Public | 4.2 | 1,822 | +0.7% |
| Tallahassee Adventist Christian Academy Tallahassee |
Private | 4.2 | 20 | — |