The top reported proficiency rate is 67% in English language arts. The lowest is 55% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Crawfordville Elementary School
Crawfordville Elementary is a regular public school in the Wakulla County School District, serving kindergarten through fifth grade in Crawfordville, Florida. Because it covers only elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report and no AP or career-pathway data that would apply at this level.
On state assessments, the school's results for the most recent year show a pattern worth examining closely. Third-grade reading proficiency is the strongest result across all tested grades and subjects, landing solidly above the majority of students. Third-grade math is similarly the high point on the math side. From there, performance steps down in both subjects as students move through the upper elementary grades, with fifth-grade math the softest result of any grade-subject combination. Fifth-grade science lands roughly at the midpoint. A parent wondering whether their child will arrive at middle school with strong foundational skills would be reasonable to ask the school directly about how it tracks and supports students whose results trail in fourth and fifth grade. Multi-year trend data was not available in the data provided, so it is not possible to say whether these patterns are improving or holding steady.
The student body is mostly white, with smaller shares of Black, Hispanic, and multiracial students. Families who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch make up a meaningful but not majority portion of enrollment, suggesting a mixed-income community rather than a high-poverty concentration. Data on English learner rates and students with IEPs were not available in the provided data. The school carries a substantial enrollment for its grade band, with kindergarten and the upper elementary grades each well represented.
Crawfordville itself is the county seat of Wakulla County, sitting just south of Tallahassee in what publicly reported sources describe as a suburban-rural mix. The built environment is car-dependent, organized along the main highway corridor rather than a walkable downtown. The area is growing, with publicly reported sources noting new residential subdivisions, active home construction, and road-widening to handle traffic between Crawfordville and Tallahassee. Home values here run meaningfully below the Florida state benchmark, and the rent-to-income picture is more manageable than in many Florida markets. For families considering the area, that affordability gap relative to the broader state is one of the more concrete draws.
At the district level, Wakulla County voters approved a dedicated school capital outlay surtax in 2022, and those funds are now financing a full multi-phase rebuild of Wakulla High School, with groundbreaking in 2026 and completion expected by 2029. That project matters to any family whose children will reach high school within the decade. The district also opened the Wakulla War Eagle Academy in 2025, adding career and technical education pathways including welding, cosmetology, media, and engineering. Those offerings are downstream for elementary-age students now, but they signal a district investing in upper-grade programming.
Because Wakulla County has only one district, the comparison set for this school contains just that single district, which means no meaningful county-level peer comparison on proficiency or other metrics was possible from the available data.
What this school offers is a neighborhood elementary in a growing, affordable community with easy access to Tallahassee, in a district that is actively building facilities and expanding programs. The reading results at the third-grade level are a genuine strength. The slide in math and reading through fourth and fifth grade is the area a prospective family would want to explore further with the school before drawing conclusions.
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