# PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156004036`
- **School name**: PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER
- **Location**: CLEARWATER, FL 33765
- **Address**: 2045 PALMETTO ST
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 27.97448, -82.75283
- **Phone**: (727)228-9517

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 616
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 4.9%

## 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 7.6% (40 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 5.6% (35 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.0%
- **Black/African American**: 6.5%
- **Asian**: 8.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 63.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 2.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 32.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.8% — 49 students
- **English Learners**: 2.7% — 17 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,489
- **Federal share**: $386
- **State + local share**: $8,103
### 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**: $57,140
- **Poverty rate**: 18.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 26.3%
- **Unemployment**: 4.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,514
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.4 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.16 miles (BRIGHT HOUSE NETWORKS FIELD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PINELLAS COUNTY UTILITIES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10203 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 84% (this school: 75.5%)
- **CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY** — 2.8 mi away, 90% (this school: 75.5%)
- **ACADEMIE DA VINCI CHARTER SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 81% (this school: 75.5%)
- **SAFETY HARBOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 77% (this school: 75.5%)
- **SAN JOSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 75.5%)

### math proficiency
- **CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 92% (this school: 83%)
- **CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY** — 2.8 mi away, 91% (this school: 83%)
- **DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE** — 5.4 mi away, 91% (this school: 83%)
- **ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY** — 6.7 mi away, 89% (this school: 83%)
- **OZONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 86% (this school: 83%)

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