# OSCAR J. POPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/oscar-j-pope-elementary-school-lakeland

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001783`
- **School name**: OSCAR J. POPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33801
- **Address**: 2730 MAINE AVE
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.01230, -81.90466
- **Phone**: (863)499-2992

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 365
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.8%

## 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 47.6% (203 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 9.3% (35 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 8.7% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 44.7% (169 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 49.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 17.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 28.6% — 108 students
- **English Learners**: 20.4% — 77 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Intellectual Disability**: 26 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 7 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,106
- **Federal share**: $2,638
- **State + local share**: $11,468
### 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**: $37,403
- **Poverty rate**: 37.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 6.9%
- **Unemployment**: 2.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,052
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.9 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 8
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 30
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.58 miles (EASTSIDE BAPTIST COMMUNITY GARDEN SITE)

### 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**: 4.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 9.26%)
- **CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 5.43% (this school: 9.26%)
- **REAL ACADEMY (REACHING EVERY ADOLESCENT LEARNER)** — 1.4 mi away, 5.3% (this school: 9.26%)
- **FRESH START COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 9.26%)
- **POLK GRAD ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 9.26%)

### ela proficiency
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 0.6 mi away, 81% (this school: 35.5%)
- **MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI** — 0.9 mi away, 58.5% (this school: 35.5%)
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 35.5%)
- **HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 35.5%)
- **LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 61% (this school: 35.5%)

### math proficiency
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 0.6 mi away, 84% (this school: 38%)
- **MI ESCUELA MONTESSORI** — 0.9 mi away, 46% (this school: 38%)
- **CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 39% (this school: 38%)
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 38%)
- **HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 72% (this school: 38%)

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