# INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120144008330`
- **School name**: INDEPENDENCE ELEMENTARY
- **Location**: WINTER GARDEN, FL 34787
- **Address**: 6255 NEW INDEPENDENCE PKWY
- **District**: ORANGE (LEAID `1201440`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–5
- **Coordinates**: 28.46733, -81.60650
- **Phone**: (407)217-7727

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 889
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 54
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 11.5%

## 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 13.7% (95 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.4% (74 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 39.6%
- **Black/African American**: 6.9%
- **Asian**: 4.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 45.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 3.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 17.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.2% — 46 students
- **English Learners**: 14.3% — 126 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 28 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,698
- **Federal share**: $809
- **State + local share**: $7,889
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,962,101
- **Federal share**: 18.0%
- **State share**: 28.8%
- **Local share**: 53.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,798,370

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $125,559
- **Poverty rate**: 3.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 62.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,181
- **Foreign-born residents**: 21.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.5 miles (TOWER CHEMICAL CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.13 miles (GRAY LINE TRUCKING)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WINTER GARDEN WATER DEPT (3 WPS)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2017-09-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.73333 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **SUMMERLAKE ELEMENTARY** — 1.3 mi away, 85.5% (this school: 81.5%)
- **HAMLIN ELEMENTARY** — 2.6 mi away, 90.5% (this school: 81.5%)
- **WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY** — 3.2 mi away, 87% (this school: 81.5%)
- **WINDERMERE ELEMENTARY** — 4.7 mi away, 87% (this school: 81.5%)
- **LAKE WHITNEY ELEMENTARY** — 5.1 mi away, 83% (this school: 81.5%)

### math proficiency
- **BRIDGEWATER MIDDLE** — 1.0 mi away, 85% (this school: 84%)
- **SUMMERLAKE ELEMENTARY** — 1.3 mi away, 89% (this school: 84%)
- **HAMLIN ELEMENTARY** — 2.6 mi away, 95% (this school: 84%)
- **WHISPERING OAK ELEMENTARY** — 3.2 mi away, 91% (this school: 84%)
- **WINDERMERE ELEMENTARY** — 4.7 mi away, 87% (this school: 84%)

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