The top reported proficiency rate is 5% in Math. The lowest is 0% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Success Academy at Ghazvini Learning Center
Success Academy at Ghazvini Learning Center is a small alternative school operated by Leon County Schools, located on Blountstown Street in Tallahassee and serving students in grades six through twelve. Its enrollment is quite small relative to a typical middle-high configuration, and its student body is predominantly Black, with a substantial majority of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on IEP and English learner populations was not available in the records reviewed.
The school's classification as an alternative program matters enormously for how a parent reads its numbers. Alternative schools in Florida typically serve students who have been displaced from traditional school settings due to disciplinary actions, credit deficiencies, truancy, or other circumstances that interrupted their enrollment elsewhere. State proficiency results exist here, but they carry a different meaning than they would at a neighborhood school. The reported FAST scores in eighth-grade math, ELA, and science are very low, and seventh-grade results were suppressed, likely due to small group size. Placed against districts in Leon County, the school's overall proficiency index falls well into the bottom of the comparison set. A parent reading those numbers should understand that they reflect the population the school is designed to serve, which tends to arrive with significant academic gaps, not a standard enrollment. That context does not diminish the gap, but it changes what the gap means. A parent would want to ask the school directly about its academic support structures, re-engagement strategies, and what progress students typically make during their time there.
No graduation rate data was available in the records, and no multi-year trend data exists to show whether outcomes have been moving in any direction. Program offerings were not reported, so it is not possible to say whether the school provides credit recovery, career preparation, counseling, or any specific intervention model beyond what a family would hear directly from the school.
On the community side, Ghazvini sits in a part of Tallahassee that is well west of downtown, in a neighborhood that is more residential and less amenity-dense than Midtown or CollegeTown. Tallahassee as a city is built around state government, Florida State University, and Florida A&M University, with a public transit system serving cross-town routes and university corridors out of a downtown hub. The housing market near this zip code is priced well below the Florida statewide median, and rents have seen modest recent increases. For a family making a housing decision, this part of Tallahassee is among the more affordable areas in the market, though the city as a whole has been working through constrained supply and planners are amending zoning to allow denser development across Leon County.
The Leon district brief turned up no confirmed parent-relevant policy or curriculum changes from recent search, so that context was left out rather than guessed at.
What this school is, plainly, is a re-entry and alternative pathway for secondary students whose trajectories required something outside the traditional school structure. The academic outcomes as measured by state tests are low, and any family engaging with this placement should be asking specific questions about what the school's program provides day to day, how it tracks student progress toward credits and graduation, and what happens when a student is ready to return to or transition into a more traditional setting.
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