# GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/garden-elementary-school-venice/llm*

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120168001860`
- **School name**: GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: VENICE, FL 34285
- **Address**: 700 CENTER RD
- **District**: SARASOTA (LEAID `1201680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.07767, -82.39965
- **Phone**: (941)486-2110

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 529
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 51.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.8% (79 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.9% (76 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 0.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 74.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 54.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.9% — 96 students
- **English Learners**: 8.4% — 43 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 37 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 30 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 5 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,475
- **Federal share**: $1,265
- **State + local share**: $14,211
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,843,608
- **Federal share**: 11.3%
- **State share**: 11.5%
- **Local share**: 77.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,691,726

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $77,891
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,064
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 41.8 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.19 miles (VENICE FORMER RINGLING PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: VENICE WATER DEPT  CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-09-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.78944 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SKY ACADEMY VENICE** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.57%)
- **STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.57%)
- **VENICE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 0.43% (this school: 1.57%)
- **VENICE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 0.28% (this school: 1.57%)
- **VENICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 0.63% (this school: 1.57%)

### ela proficiency
- **STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY** — 2.6 mi away, 74% (this school: 65%)
- **VENICE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 68% (this school: 65%)
- **VENICE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 67% (this school: 65%)
- **VENICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 65%)
- **TAYLOR RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 78.5% (this school: 65%)

### math proficiency
- **STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY** — 2.6 mi away, 95% (this school: 69%)
- **VENICE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 75% (this school: 69%)
- **VENICE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 72% (this school: 69%)
- **VENICE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 83% (this school: 69%)
- **TAYLOR RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 82% (this school: 69%)

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