# JAMES E. STEPHENS ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001791`
- **School name**: JAMES E. STEPHENS ACADEMY
- **Location**: BARTOW, FL 33830
- **Address**: 1350 MAPLE AVE N
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.90997, -81.85619
- **Phone**: (863)534-7455

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 336
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 23
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 79.2%

## 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 61.7% (195 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.1% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.9% (62 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 28.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 47.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 20.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 2.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 81.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.0% — 69 students
- **English Learners**: 13.4% — 44 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $19,173
- **Federal share**: $5,216
- **State + local share**: $13,958
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,489,537
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 43.8%
- **Local share**: 35.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,033,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $58,491
- **Poverty rate**: 27.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.7%
- **Unemployment**: 7.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,112
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.7 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.17 miles (FORMER OAKS SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BARTOW, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.88691 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BARTOW ELEMENTARY ACADEMY** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.1%)
- **BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 2.18% (this school: 6.1%)
- **JEAN O'DELL LEARNING CENTER** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.1%)
- **BARTOW MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 3.4% (this school: 6.1%)
- **COMPASS MIDDLE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 4.35% (this school: 6.1%)

### ela proficiency
- **BARTOW ELEMENTARY ACADEMY** — 1.5 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 63%)
- **UNION ACADEMY** — 2.4 mi away, 74% (this school: 63%)
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 69% (this school: 63%)
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 63%)
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 63%)

### math proficiency
- **BARTOW ELEMENTARY ACADEMY** — 1.5 mi away, 67% (this school: 62%)
- **UNION ACADEMY** — 2.4 mi away, 67% (this school: 62%)
- **HIGHLAND CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 69% (this school: 62%)
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 79% (this school: 62%)
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 62%)

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