The top reported proficiency rate is 71% in Math. The lowest is 58% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Riversink Elementary School
Riversink Elementary sits on Lonnie Raker Lane in Crawfordville, the county seat of Wakulla County and a community that sits squarely within the Tallahassee metropolitan area while maintaining a distinctly rural feel. Crawfordville is car-oriented, spread along a commercial highway corridor rather than a walkable center, with residential life leaning heavily toward wooded acreage and homeownership. The area is growing steadily, publicly reported as a spillover destination from Tallahassee, with new subdivisions active, road widening underway, and a county-led town plan guiding development. Home values here sit noticeably below the Florida state benchmark, and rent-to-income ratios track at a more manageable level than many Florida markets, though prices have been rising year over year. For families weighing a move, the housing picture reads as comparatively accessible by Florida standards.
The school serves kindergarten through fifth grade and draws a mid-sized enrollment for that grade band. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Black, Hispanic, and multiracial students. Just over a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a moderate economic concentration. Data on English learners and students with IEPs were not available in the figures provided.
On Florida's FAST assessments, Riversink's results vary meaningfully across grades and subjects. Third-grade math proficiency is strong, placing a large majority of students at the proficiency threshold, and fourth-grade math holds solid as well. Fifth-grade math drops off more noticeably, with just under three in five students proficient. Reading follows a different pattern: third grade lands in a reasonable range, but fourth-grade ELA proficiency falls to roughly half of students, the weakest result in the data set, before recovering somewhat in fifth grade. Science, tested only at fifth grade in Florida, lands just above three in five students proficient. Trend data across years was not available, so it is not possible to say from this data whether these results reflect a stable pattern, recent improvement, or decline. A parent would do well to ask the school directly about reading support in the middle elementary grades, particularly around fourth grade, where the ELA gap is most pronounced.
No magnet or charter designation applies. Title I status was not reported. Program details were not provided in the data.
Because Wakulla County has only one district, the comparison set used here is too small to position Riversink's proficiency against neighboring districts in any meaningful way, and graduation rate does not apply to an elementary school.
The parent district, Wakulla County Schools, carries a few developments worth knowing. Voters approved a dedicated school capital outlay surtax that took effect in 2023, creating a lasting revenue stream for facility improvements. That funding is connected to the district's multi-phase rebuild of Wakulla High School, the county's only public four-year high school, with groundbreaking in 2026 and completion expected in 2029. Families with younger children at Riversink today will likely see their kids enter a rebuilt high school campus. The district also publicly opened the Wakulla War Eagle Academy in 2025, adding career and technical pathways including welding, cosmetology, media, and engineering, broadening what the district offers as students reach secondary grades.
Riversink's setting fits families drawn to rural-residential living with reasonable proximity to Tallahassee's employment base. The academic picture at the elementary level has clear strengths in early math and shows gaps in reading, particularly in fourth grade, that warrant a closer look.
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