# PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120123001231`
- **School name**: PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALMETTO, FL 34221
- **Address**: 1540 10TH ST W
- **District**: MANATEE (LEAID `1201230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.52198, -82.58371
- **Phone**: (941)723-4822

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 519
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.3%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 45.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 61.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Grade 3 ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 33.0% proficient
- **Math Achievement (FL FAST)**: 68.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 81.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 76.0% proficient
- **Percent Economically Disadvantaged (FL)**: 100.0% proficient
- **Science Achievement (FL SSA)**: 41.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.1% (236 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.8% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.9% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.1% (93 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 59.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 16.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 17.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 25.7% — 140 students
- **English Learners**: 37.4% — 204 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 48 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 24 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,757
- **Federal share**: $2,736
- **State + local share**: $12,022
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,178,574
- **Federal share**: 15.9%
- **State share**: 25.8%
- **Local share**: 58.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,593,675

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $58,958
- **Poverty rate**: 5.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 17.6%
- **Unemployment**: 0.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,095
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.6 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 17
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.43 miles (PALMETTO FORMER HEARTLAND FERTILIZER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PALMETTO WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.78944 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **JUST FOR GIRLS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.75%)
- **PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.75%)
- **PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0.77% (this school: 2.75%)
- **MANATEE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.75%)
- **MANATEE VIRTUAL SCHOOL ( VIRTUAL FRANCHISE)** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.75%)

### ela proficiency
- **PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 81.5% (this school: 39%)
- **PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 47% (this school: 39%)
- **MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS** — 2.1 mi away, 54% (this school: 39%)
- **HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA** — 2.1 mi away, 51% (this school: 39%)
- **MANATEE HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 49% (this school: 39%)

### math proficiency
- **PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 90% (this school: 68%)
- **JAMES TILLMAN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 78% (this school: 68%)
- **OASIS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 76% (this school: 68%)
- **PALMA SOLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 71% (this school: 68%)
- **ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY** — 3.5 mi away, 78% (this school: 68%)

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