# PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120123001232`
- **School name**: PALMETTO HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALMETTO, FL 34221
- **Address**: 1200 17TH ST W
- **District**: MANATEE (LEAID `1201230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 27.52984, -82.57806
- **Phone**: (941)723-4848
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7128366 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmetto_High_School_(Florida)
- **Founded**: 1930

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,185
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 97
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 60.1%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.0%
- **2021**: 89.0% (cohort of 564)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 696

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 47.5% (980 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (29 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 37.0% (812 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 274
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 36.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.6%
- **Asian**: 20.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 37.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.1% — 309 students
- **English Learners**: 8.8% — 193 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 179 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 59 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 57 students
- **Autism**: 17 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 15 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 7 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,143
- **Federal share**: $796
- **State + local share**: $8,348
### 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**: $61,250
- **Poverty rate**: 18.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.9%
- **Unemployment**: 6.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,051
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.0 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 17
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.32 miles (PALMETTO MANATEE FRUIT CO RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY)

### 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**: 17.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.77%)
- **JUST FOR GIRLS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.77%)
- **MANATEE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.77%)
- **MANATEE VIRTUAL SCHOOL ( VIRTUAL FRANCHISE)** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.77%)
- **MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS** — 1.9 mi away, 0.4% (this school: 0.77%)

### ela proficiency
- **PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 81.5% (this school: 47%)
- **JAMES TILLMAN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 56% (this school: 47%)
- **MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS** — 1.9 mi away, 54% (this school: 47%)
- **HOLA! ELEMENTARY @ MSA** — 1.9 mi away, 51% (this school: 47%)
- **MANATEE HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 49% (this school: 47%)

### graduation rate
- **MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS** — 1.9 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL** — 6.3 mi away, 100% (this school: 91%)
- **BRADEN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.1 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **PARRISH COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL** — 9.2 mi away, 95% (this school: 91%)
- **LAKEWOOD RANCH HIGH SCHOOL** — 10.4 mi away, 97% (this school: 91%)

### math proficiency
- **PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 90% (this school: 31%)
- **PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 68% (this school: 31%)
- **LINCOLN MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 49% (this school: 31%)
- **JAMES TILLMAN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 78% (this school: 31%)
- **MANATEE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS** — 1.9 mi away, 40% (this school: 31%)

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