# JAMES W. SIKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159002404`
- **School name**: JAMES W. SIKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33811
- **Address**: 2727 SHEPHERD RD
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.93936, -81.99990
- **Phone**: (863)648-3525

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 502
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 35
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.6%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 33.3% (244 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 25.1% (138 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 36.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 12.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 46.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 57.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.1% — 127 students
- **English Learners**: 18.3% — 101 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,104
- **Federal share**: $1,709
- **State + local share**: $9,396
### 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**: $86,250
- **Poverty rate**: 3.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,166
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.0 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.68 miles (PRAIRIE MINE RD SITE MUL1 2)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKELAND, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.88691 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 1.67% (this school: 2%)
- **MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 1.14% (this school: 2%)
- **LAKELAND HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 1.75% (this school: 2%)
- **GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGH** — 5.1 mi away, 1.15% (this school: 2%)
- **HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.7 mi away, 1.97% (this school: 2%)

### ela proficiency
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 65%)
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.6 mi away, 69% (this school: 65%)
- **HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.7 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 65%)
- **CLEVELAND COURT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.8 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 65%)
- **MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY** — 6.8 mi away, 87% (this school: 65%)

### math proficiency
- **R. BRUCE WAGNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 64% (this school: 57%)
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 65% (this school: 57%)
- **LAKELAND HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 58% (this school: 57%)
- **SPRINGHEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 64% (this school: 57%)
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.6 mi away, 79% (this school: 57%)

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