# PALM LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/palm-lakes-elementary-school-hialeah

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039000489`
- **School name**: PALM LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: HIALEAH, FL 33014
- **Address**: 7450 W 16TH AVE
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 25.89020, -80.31659
- **Phone**: (305)823-6970

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 574
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 50.5%

## 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 19.5% (105 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.0% (95 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 97.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 0.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.3% — 91 students
- **English Learners**: 40.1% — 224 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,284
- **Federal share**: $2,649
- **State + local share**: $12,635
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,452,063
- **Federal share**: 19.5%
- **State share**: 23.3%
- **Local share**: 57.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,807,498

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $77,139
- **Poverty rate**: 8.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.5%
- **Unemployment**: 6.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $956
- **Foreign-born residents**: 54.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.6 miles (PEPPER STEEL ALLOYS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 85
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.06 miles (SEARS NORTH DADE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HIALEAH, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.0125 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER** — 1.0 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 68%)
- **JOHN G. DUPUIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 71.5% (this school: 68%)
- **CITY OF HIALEAH EDUCATIONAL ACADEMY** — 1.2 mi away, 70% (this school: 68%)
- **JOSE MARTI MAST 6-12 ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 92% (this school: 68%)
- **MATER ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 69% (this school: 68%)

### math proficiency
- **YOUTH CO-OP CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 70% (this school: 66%)
- **MIAMI LAKES K-8 CENTER** — 1.0 mi away, 73% (this school: 66%)
- **JOHN G. DUPUIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 66%)
- **NORTH TWIN LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 70% (this school: 66%)
- **JOSE MARTI MAST 6-12 ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 95% (this school: 66%)

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