# MERRIAM CHERRY STREET ELEMENTARY

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/merriam-cherry-street-elementary-panama-city

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120009000043`
- **School name**: MERRIAM CHERRY STREET ELEMENTARY
- **Location**: PANAMA CITY, FL 32401
- **Address**: 1125 CHERRY ST
- **District**: BAY (LEAID `1200090`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 30.14656, -85.64523
- **Phone**: (850)767-1480

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 343
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 27
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 64.1%

## 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 57.9% (257 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.6% (67 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 11.0% (42 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.1% (84 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 61
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 41.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 38.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 8.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.9% — 76 students
- **English Learners**: 7.9% — 30 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,424
- **Federal share**: $3,591
- **State + local share**: $10,834
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,806,672
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 33.0%
- **Local share**: 46.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,489,942

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $77,141
- **Poverty rate**: 12.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.0%
- **Unemployment**: 7.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,634
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.4 miles (TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.16 miles (FORMER DOMESTIC LAUNDRY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BAY COUNTY WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MARGARET K. LEWIS IN MILLVILLE** — 1.2 mi away, 3.55% (this school: 17.59%)
- **ROSENWALD HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 13.89% (this school: 17.59%)
- **BAY REGIONAL JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 17.59%)
- **CHAUTAUQUA CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 17.59%)
- **BAY HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 4.16% (this school: 17.59%)

### ela proficiency
- **AMIKIDS MARITIME ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 54% (this school: 53.5%)
- **BAY HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 56% (this school: 53.5%)
- **PALM BAY PREPARATORY ACADEMY 6-12** — 2.4 mi away, 60% (this school: 53.5%)
- **PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 53.5%)
- **BAY VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 2.6 mi away, 90% (this school: 53.5%)

### math proficiency
- **PALM BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 53% (this school: 50%)
- **NORTHSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 58% (this school: 50%)
- **RISING LEADERS ACADEMY** — 3.5 mi away, 83% (this school: 50%)
- **CALLAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.6 mi away, 62% (this school: 50%)
- **BAY HAVEN CHARTER ACADEMY** — 4.7 mi away, 75% (this school: 50%)

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