# BELCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156001602`
- **School name**: BELCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: CLEARWATER, FL 33764
- **Address**: 2215 LANCASTER DRIVE
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.92943, -82.74478
- **Phone**: (727)538-7437

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 467
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.5%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.3% (145 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.7% (18 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.1% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.1% (112 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.5%
- **Black/African American**: 4.9%
- **Asian**: 12.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 55.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 6.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.9% — 77 students
- **English Learners**: 18.6% — 90 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 38 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,713
- **Federal share**: $1,388
- **State + local share**: $12,324
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,667,582
- **Federal share**: 18.3%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 56.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,792,259

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,991
- **Poverty rate**: 12.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,300
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.2 miles (SOUTHERN SOLVENTS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 77
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.49 miles (DANSVILLE CENTRAL LANDFILL)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10203 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **OAK GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 1.97% (this school: 3.72%)
- **FRONTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 2.46% (this school: 3.72%)
- **PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 2.87% (this school: 3.72%)
- **PINELLAS ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.72%)
- **PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.72%)

### ela proficiency
- **FRONTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 68% (this school: 65%)
- **PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 68.5% (this school: 65%)
- **PINELLAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 2.3 mi away, 69% (this school: 65%)
- **PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 65%)
- **PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER** — 3.1 mi away, 75.5% (this school: 65%)

### math proficiency
- **PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 79% (this school: 68%)
- **PLATO ACADEMY LARGO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 70% (this school: 68%)
- **PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 76% (this school: 68%)
- **SKYCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 72% (this school: 68%)
- **PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER** — 3.1 mi away, 83% (this school: 68%)

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