# PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156008135`
- **School name**: PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS
- **Location**: TARPON SPRINGS, FL 34688
- **Address**: 2795 KEYSTONE RD
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 28.15112, -82.70529
- **Phone**: (727)939-6413

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 349
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 33.0%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: A

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.3% (48 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.7% (32 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 8.1%
- **Black/African American**: 3.1%
- **Asian**: 2.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 83.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 33.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.6% — 28 students
- **English Learners**: 4.4% — 16 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,255
- **Federal share**: $525
- **State + local share**: $8,729
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,667,582
- **Federal share**: 18.3%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 56.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,792,259

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $159,688
- **Poverty rate**: 6.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 60.1%
- **Unemployment**: 0.0%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.4 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.26 miles (LAKE BUTLER HEIGHTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TARPON SPRINGS WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-09-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10203 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 14.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **BROOKER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 86.5% (this school: 80.5%)
- **EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING** — 1.7 mi away, 86% (this school: 80.5%)
- **TARPON SPRINGS FUNDAMENTAL ELE** — 2.9 mi away, 90.5% (this school: 80.5%)
- **ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL  NORTH PINELLAS** — 3.2 mi away, 94% (this school: 80.5%)
- **ATHENIAN ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS** — 3.8 mi away, 88.5% (this school: 80.5%)

### math proficiency
- **BROOKER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 89% (this school: 75%)
- **EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING** — 1.7 mi away, 91% (this school: 75%)
- **CYPRESS WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 87% (this school: 75%)
- **TARPON SPRINGS FUNDAMENTAL ELE** — 2.9 mi away, 90% (this school: 75%)
- **ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL  NORTH PINELLAS** — 3.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 75%)

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

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