# BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120123001218`
- **School name**: BALLARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: BRADENTON, FL 34205
- **Address**: 912 18TH ST W
- **District**: MANATEE (LEAID `1201230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.49119, -82.58018
- **Phone**: (941)708-8400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 421
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: C

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 48.8% (202 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.5% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.5% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.2% (76 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 45.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 27.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 21.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.6% — 65 students
- **English Learners**: 20.6% — 86 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 50 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,049
- **Federal share**: $2,860
- **State + local share**: $12,189
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,178,574
- **Federal share**: 15.9%
- **State share**: 25.8%
- **Local share**: 58.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,593,675

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $51,573
- **Poverty rate**: 8.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,535
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 14.4 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.05 miles (WARES CREEK 1 9TH AVE PARCELS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MANATEE COUNTY UTILITIES  DEPT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-06-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.78944 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **G D ROGERS GARDEN- BULLOCK ELEMENTARY** — 0.8 mi away, 4.74% (this school: 5.52%)
- **MANATEE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 5.52%)
- **JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.52%)
- **TEAM SUCCESS A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE** — 1.2 mi away, 1.53% (this school: 5.52%)
- **MANATEE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY-HEAD START** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.52%)

### ela proficiency
- **MANATEE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 49% (this school: 35%)
- **JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 42.5% (this school: 35%)
- **ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 73% (this school: 35%)
- **ROBERT H. PRINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 41% (this school: 35%)
- **MANATEE SCHOOL OF ARTS/SCIENCES** — 1.9 mi away, 44% (this school: 35%)

### math proficiency
- **TEAM SUCCESS A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE** — 1.2 mi away, 59% (this school: 46%)
- **JESSIE P. MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 57% (this school: 46%)
- **ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 78% (this school: 46%)
- **ROBERT H. PRINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 48% (this school: 46%)
- **WILLIAM MONROE ROWLETT ACADEMY FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATION** — 2.1 mi away, 62% (this school: 46%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ballard-elementary-school-bradenton/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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