W T Moore Elementary School, Tallahassee FL

Original Research by School Decision on W T Moore Elementary School

W T Moore Elementary sits on Dempsey Mayo Road on Tallahassee's east side, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade within Leon County Schools. The school draws a genuinely diverse student body: Black students make up the largest group at roughly half the enrollment, followed by white students, Hispanic students, and smaller Asian and multiracial populations. Close to half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in a moderately mixed economic range for its setting. Data on English learner and special education populations were not available in what was provided.

On Florida's state assessments, W T Moore posted its strongest results in third-grade math, where most students scored at the proficient level, a result that stands out against the backdrop of the other grades tested. Reading proficiency in third and fourth grade landed in a similar range, with the majority of students meeting the bar. By fourth-grade math and fifth-grade reading and science, results slip to roughly half of students reaching proficiency, and the statewide science assessment for fifth grade falls just above that threshold. Trend data across years was not available, so it is not possible to say from this data whether scores are climbing, flat, or declining. A parent who wants to understand the trajectory would be worth asking the school directly.

Placed against the other districts in Leon County, W T Moore's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint of the comparison set, which is a positive marker. It is not at the top of that range, but it is not at the low end either. The comparison here is relative to districts in Leon County, not to individual schools across the state.

No information on program offerings, course access, staffing ratios, chronic absenteeism, or discipline was available in the data provided, so those dimensions cannot be characterized here.

The surrounding neighborhood is part of Tallahassee's east side, a section of the city that has seen recent residential development, including new single-family rental communities completed in early 2025, according to publicly reported sources. Tallahassee itself is a government and university city, with the State of Florida as its dominant employer and Florida State University, Florida A&M University, and healthcare anchoring much of the rest of the economy. Housing in the zip code around the school runs close to the statewide median, with values that have been roughly flat year over year while rents have ticked upward. The rent-to-income ratio sits at a manageable level relative to national benchmarks, and monthly ownership costs on a typical home are in a range that is somewhat more affordable than buying at the Florida state median. The city overall is car-dependent, though the east side has seen infrastructure investment alongside new housing.

Leon County Schools did not produce any parent-relevant district-level changes in the research conducted for this profile, so the district brief is thin. That is a gap in what is known here, not a signal about the district itself, and families moving to the area would benefit from checking the district's communications directly.

For a family weighing this school, the picture is a mid-sized neighborhood elementary with a racially diverse student body, academic results that come in above the county midpoint but show some softness in the upper elementary grades, and a school location embedded in a part of Tallahassee that is quietly growing. The third-grade math results are a real strength. The slide in proficiency from third grade to fourth and fifth, particularly in math, is worth exploring with the school.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 369%

School 69% · District 63% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 452%

School 52% · District 61% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 557%

School 57% · District 56% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 364%

School 64% · District 57% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 463%

School 63% · District 55% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 558%

School 58% · District 54% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 8 pts above county median

Science

Grade 553%

School 53% · District 51% · ▲ 2 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

This schoolLEON, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income41%Higher-income77%36 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income51%Higher-income71%20 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income37%Higher-income69%32 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income50%Higher-income79%29 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income38%Higher-income63%26 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income29%Higher-income71%42 pp gap