# MILDRED HELMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156001644`
- **School name**: MILDRED HELMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: LARGO, FL 33770
- **Address**: 561 CLEARWATER LARGO RD S
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.91200, -82.79760
- **Phone**: (727)588-3569

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 515
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 61.6%

## 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 28.6% (162 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (18 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.0% (120 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 21.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 19.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 46.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.2%
- **Two or more races**: 9.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 67.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.9% — 83 students
- **English Learners**: 10.8% — 56 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 37 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,339
- **Federal share**: $1,007
- **State + local share**: $11,332
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,667,582
- **Federal share**: 18.3%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 56.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,792,259

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $48,686
- **Poverty rate**: 22.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.0%
- **Unemployment**: 12.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,018
- **Foreign-born residents**: 10.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 17.6 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 45
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.90 miles (PROPOSED LEALMAN PFCU)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PINELLAS COUNTY UTILITIES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10203 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LARGO MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 2.95% (this school: 3.45%)
- **RIDGECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 2.25% (this school: 3.45%)
- **LARGO HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 3.45%)
- **FUGUITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.45%)
- **PLATO SEMINOLE** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.45%)

### ela proficiency
- **PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 67.5%)
- **PINELLAS PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 3.3 mi away, 69% (this school: 67.5%)
- **OAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 69.5% (this school: 67.5%)
- **PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 68.5% (this school: 67.5%)
- **FRONTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 68% (this school: 67.5%)

### math proficiency
- **PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 76% (this school: 69%)
- **ANONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 77% (this school: 69%)
- **WALSINGHAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 71% (this school: 69%)
- **OAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 78% (this school: 69%)
- **PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 79% (this school: 69%)

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