# BESSEY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/bessey-creek-elementary-school-palm-city

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120129003087`
- **School name**: BESSEY CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALM CITY, FL 34990
- **Address**: 2201 SW MATHESON AVE
- **District**: MARTIN (LEAID `1201290`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.17870, -80.27680
- **Phone**: (772)219-1500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 594
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 22.4%

## 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 5.7% (30 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.0% (45 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.0%
- **Black/African American**: 2.7%
- **Asian**: 1.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 79.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 2.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 25.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.4% — 98 students
- **English Learners**: 1.8% — 10 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 60 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,353
- **Federal share**: $1,590
- **State + local share**: $11,762
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,694,262
- **Federal share**: 12.8%
- **State share**: 15.1%
- **Local share**: 72.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,504,692

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,254
- **Poverty rate**: 3.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 45.4%
- **Unemployment**: 13.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,698
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.6 miles (SOLITRON MICROWAVE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.84 miles (1020 SE FEDERAL HWY SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HARBOUR RIDGE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-08-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.31284 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **PALM CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 79.5% (this school: 77%)
- **CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY** — 2.5 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 77%)
- **CLARK ADVANCED LEARNING CENTER** — 4.7 mi away, 89% (this school: 77%)
- **MORNINGSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 79.5% (this school: 77%)
- **MOSAIC DIGITAL ACADEMY K-12** — 12.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 77%)

### math proficiency
- **PALM CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 84% (this school: 83%)
- **CITRUS GROVE ELEMENTARY** — 2.5 mi away, 90% (this school: 83%)
- **CLARK ADVANCED LEARNING CENTER** — 4.7 mi away, 90% (this school: 83%)
- **MORNINGSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 85% (this school: 83%)

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