# JAMES A. LONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120162001805`
- **School name**: JAMES A. LONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALATKA, FL 32177
- **Address**: 1400 OLD JACKSONVILLE RD
- **District**: PUTNAM (LEAID `1201620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 29.66499, -81.65288
- **Phone**: (386)329-0575

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 565
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 56.5%

## 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 43.3% (201 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.3% (18 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 34.5% (187 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 6.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 29.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 58.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 3.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 74.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.9% — 86 students
- **English Learners**: 0.7% — 4 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 42 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 23 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,476
- **Federal share**: $2,594
- **State + local share**: $8,881
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,562,922
- **Federal share**: 29.7%
- **State share**: 44.0%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,191,356

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $35,481
- **Poverty rate**: 36.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.2%
- **Unemployment**: 14.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $798
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 38.5 miles (JACKSONVILLE NAVAL AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.00 miles (FLORIDA ROCK PROPERTIES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: R. C. WILLIS WTP (CITY OF PALATKA)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 68
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PUTNAM ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES** — 1.5 mi away, 1.03% (this school: 1.66%)
- **PALATKA JR - SR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 1.31% (this school: 1.66%)
- **PUTNAM VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.66%)
- **THE CHILDREN'S READING CENTER** — 3.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.66%)
- **KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 0.66% (this school: 1.66%)

### ela proficiency
- **PUTNAM ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES** — 1.5 mi away, 50% (this school: 49%)
- **PUTNAM VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM (DISTRICT PROVIDED)** — 1.8 mi away, 77% (this school: 49%)
- **THE CHILDREN'S READING CENTER** — 3.4 mi away, 78% (this school: 49%)
- **SOUTH WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 12.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 49%)
- **Q.I. ROBERTS JR. - SR. HIGH SCHOOL** — 12.4 mi away, 88% (this school: 49%)

### math proficiency
- **PUTNAM ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES** — 1.5 mi away, 50% (this school: 46%)
- **PUTNAM VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM (DISTRICT PROVIDED)** — 1.8 mi away, 58% (this school: 46%)
- **THE CHILDREN'S READING CENTER** — 3.4 mi away, 85% (this school: 46%)
- **KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 55% (this school: 46%)
- **SOUTH WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 12.1 mi away, 56% (this school: 46%)

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