# FESSENDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120126001261`
- **School name**: FESSENDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: OCALA, FL 34482
- **Address**: 4200 NW 89TH PL
- **District**: MARION (LEAID `1201260`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 29.28019, -82.19268
- **Phone**: (352)671-4935

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 430
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 43.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 44.1% (171 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.3% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.7% (85 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 13
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.8%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 33.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 32.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.7% — 42 students
- **English Learners**: 12.8% — 55 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 31 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,660
- **Federal share**: $3,647
- **State + local share**: $10,014
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,138,174
- **Federal share**: 21.4%
- **State share**: 43.3%
- **Local share**: 35.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,970,359

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $40,698
- **Poverty rate**: 34.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.1%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,043
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 22.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 28.4 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.05 miles (FORMER TURNIPSEED CHEVROLET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OCALA, CITY OF (2 WTPS)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **NORTH MARION MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 2.46% (this school: 3.48%)
- **ANTHONY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 1.8% (this school: 3.48%)
- **NORTH MARION HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 2.07% (this school: 3.48%)
- **VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 1.35% (this school: 3.48%)
- **MARION REG. JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER** — 5.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.48%)

### ela proficiency
- **NORTH MARION MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 44% (this school: 36.5%)
- **OCALI CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 46% (this school: 36.5%)
- **ANTHONY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 43.5% (this school: 36.5%)
- **NORTH MARION HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 43% (this school: 36.5%)
- **VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 49% (this school: 36.5%)

### math proficiency
- **NORTH MARION MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 48% (this school: 33%)
- **ANTHONY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 60% (this school: 33%)
- **REDDICK-COLLIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.1 mi away, 47% (this school: 33%)
- **HOWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.1 mi away, 58% (this school: 33%)
- **OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 34% (this school: 33%)

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