Sealey Elementary School, Tallahassee FL

Original Research by School Decision on Sealey Elementary School

Sealey Elementary sits on Allen Road in the northeast quadrant of Tallahassee, a pre-K through fifth grade public school in Leon County Schools. Its enrollment sits at a modest size for an elementary school of its grade span, with students spread fairly evenly across grade levels from kindergarten through fifth grade.

The school serves a racially and economically mixed student body. Black students make up the largest group, with white and multiracial students together representing a meaningful share of the enrollment, and smaller Hispanic and Asian populations as well. Roughly half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing Sealey in a middle range economically rather than at either end of the spectrum. Data on English learner and special education rates were not available in what was provided.

On Florida's state assessments, the FAST results from the most recent year show a school working to build proficiency. In both reading and math, third graders came in just below the halfway mark statewide. By fourth grade the picture improves meaningfully, with the majority of students reaching proficiency in both ELA and math, and fourth grade ELA showing the strongest result across all tested grades and subjects. Fifth grade falls back to roughly half of students meeting the bar in reading and math. The fifth grade science assessment, administered through Florida's Statewide Science Assessment, returned a result below forty percent proficiency, which is the softer spot in the academic profile. A parent may want to ask the school directly about how science instruction and supports are structured, particularly heading into fifth grade. Looking at the overall proficiency picture across all tested subjects and grades combined, Sealey sits below the midpoint relative to districts in Leon County, so families should understand that this is a school where academic growth is happening but results are still uneven across subjects and grade levels.

Multi-year trend data was not available, so it is not possible to say whether scores are improving, flat, or declining over time. That context would matter, and parents may want to ask the school about trajectory.

The school is not designated as a charter or magnet school. Title I status was not reported in the data.

The surrounding area tells families something about the housing market they would be entering. Home values near the school run well above both the Florida median and the national median, and they have been essentially flat in year-over-year change. Rents are also above typical benchmarks, though the rent-to-income ratio sits at a level that is not extreme by national standards. This part of northeast Tallahassee is among the more established residential zones in the city, somewhat removed from the university and government core but still within reasonable distance of the services and amenities that define daily life in the capital.

Tallahassee itself is a government and university city, shaped by the presence of the state capitol complex, Florida State University, Florida A&M University, and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. The economy is more stable than boom-and-bust because state government and higher education do not cycle with private markets the way many city economies do. The city is car-dependent in most neighborhoods, though the public library system, a network of parks including Cascades Park and the St. Marks rail-trail, and the StarMetro bus system provide civic infrastructure. Planners are actively addressing a housing supply gap, with new mixed-use and single-family development underway in various parts of the metro.

Regarding district-level changes, searches for recent curriculum, budget, or policy shifts at Leon County Schools returned nothing that could be confirmed from reliable sources, so that context is absent here rather than guessed at.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 63% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 461%

School 61% · District 61%

even with state median · even with county median

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 56% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 57% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 466%

School 66% · District 55% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 552%

School 52% · District 54% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Science

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 51% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below 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-income40%Higher-income52%12 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income59%Higher-income71%12 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income48%Higher-income58%10 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income32%Higher-income58%26 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income59%Higher-income63%4 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income49%Higher-income56%8 pp gap