The top reported proficiency rate is 0% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Second Chance at Ghazvini Learning Center
Second Chance at Ghazvini Learning Center sits on Blountstown Street in Tallahassee, operated by Leon County Schools as a public alternative school serving grades six through twelve. Despite being formally listed as kindergarten through twelve, the actual enrollment is concentrated in the middle and high school years, with no students in the elementary grades. The school is small, serving a modest group of students spread across those grade levels, with the largest concentrations in seventh, eighth, and ninth grade.
The school's purpose is written into its name. Alternative schools in Florida typically serve students who have not found success in a traditional school setting, whether due to disciplinary circumstances, academic setbacks, credit deficiencies, or other challenges. Parents considering this school should understand it within that context rather than against the profile of a conventional middle or high school.
A substantial share of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this among the higher-need schools in terms of economic context. Racially, the majority of students are Black, with smaller shares of White and Hispanic students. Data on students with individualized education programs or English learner designations was not available in the data provided.
State assessment results are available for a limited set of grades. For eighth grade, reported proficiency rates in both math and ELA came in at the floor, meaning no tested students reached the proficiency threshold on those assessments. Results for sixth and seventh grade were suppressed, likely because the groups were too small for the state to release without risking identification of individual students. The eighth-grade science assessment was also suppressed. Taken together, the available data shows very low academic proficiency as measured by Florida's FAST assessments, and this school sits in the bottom tier relative to districts in Leon County on the overall proficiency index. A parent should take this in context: this is a school serving students who have often experienced significant disruption in their academic trajectories, and raw proficiency scores do not capture whether students are recovering ground or stabilizing. That said, the data does not provide growth or trajectory information, so those questions are worth raising directly with the school.
Graduation rate data was not available, which is common for alternative schools where students may be working toward completion on non-standard timelines or earning credit through flexible pathways.
No program offerings data was included, so it is not possible to describe specific academic pathways, career technical options, or wraparound supports. Given the school's model, those supports are likely central to what it does, and a parent would want to ask the school directly about counseling, credit recovery, reentry planning, and post-secondary connections.
The school is located in a Tallahassee zip code where the housing market is meaningfully more affordable than the Florida state median. Home values in the area have seen modest appreciation recently, and rents are running at a level where rent-to-income ratios remain more manageable than in many Florida metros. Tallahassee itself is a mid-sized capital city shaped by state government, Florida State University, Florida A&M University, and Tallahassee Community College. Most of the city is car-dependent, though the downtown corridor, Midtown, and CollegeTown have pedestrian-friendly pockets. A city-run bus system called StarMetro serves cross-town routes and university corridors from its downtown hub.
No parent-relevant district-level changes for Leon County Schools were confirmed through research, so that piece was left out rather than estimated.
For a family whose student is being placed here, or considering it, the school's identity as an alternative program is the central fact. The low tested proficiency reflects a population dealing with real academic gaps, and the school's value is in whether it can help a student stabilize and move forward. The data available here cannot answer that question on its own.
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