# PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159005342`
- **School name**: PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: POINCIANA, FL 34759
- **Address**: 315 PALMETTO ST
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.11291, -81.46037
- **Phone**: (863)427-6012

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 479
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 73.7%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 38.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 52.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 64.0% proficient
- **Grade 3 ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 41.0% proficient
- **Math Achievement (FL FAST)**: 35.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 29.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 36.0% proficient
- **Percent Economically Disadvantaged (FL)**: 100.0% proficient
- **Science Achievement (FL SSA)**: 46.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 51.8% (284 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.4% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.5% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 44.2% (209 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 64.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 24.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 8.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.4% — 73 students
- **English Learners**: 27.1% — 128 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 23 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,499
- **Federal share**: $3,218
- **State + local share**: $9,281
### 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**: $39,416
- **Poverty rate**: 19.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.7%
- **Unemployment**: 7.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,646
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 32.0 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 9.87 miles (FORMER POLK COUNTY FERTILIZER)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.73333 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 19.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CHESTNUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.38%)
- **NEW DIMENSIONS HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.38%)
- **LAUREL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 1.24% (this school: 3.38%)
- **BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OSCEOLA COUNTY** — 3.2 mi away, 1.21% (this school: 3.38%)
- **KOA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 1.69% (this school: 3.38%)

### ela proficiency
- **CHESTNUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING** — 0.4 mi away, 46% (this school: 39.5%)
- **NEW DIMENSIONS HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 70% (this school: 39.5%)
- **LAUREL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 48% (this school: 39.5%)
- **BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OSCEOLA COUNTY** — 3.2 mi away, 48.5% (this school: 39.5%)
- **KOA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 42% (this school: 39.5%)

### math proficiency
- **CHESTNUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING** — 0.4 mi away, 51% (this school: 35%)
- **NEW DIMENSIONS HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 61% (this school: 35%)
- **LAUREL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 52% (this school: 35%)
- **BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OSCEOLA COUNTY** — 3.2 mi away, 43% (this school: 35%)
- **KOA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 37% (this school: 35%)

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