# SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156001690`
- **School name**: SUNSET HILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: TARPON SPRINGS, FL 34689
- **Address**: 1347 GULF RD
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.14348, -82.77525
- **Phone**: (727)943-5523

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 428
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.7%

## 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 23.6% (109 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.1% (76 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 2.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 76.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 5.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 48.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 57 students
- **English Learners**: 4.3% — 19 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 20 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 14 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,422
- **Federal share**: $729
- **State + local share**: $11,694
### 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**: $94,333
- **Poverty rate**: 8.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.3%
- **Unemployment**: 9.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,755
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.6 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.04 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**: 13.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **TARPON SPRINGS FUNDAMENTAL ELE** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%)
- **ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL  NORTH PINELLAS** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%)
- **PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH** — 4.1 mi away, 0.16% (this school: 0.68%)
- **PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS** — 4.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.68%)
- **SUNRAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 0.46% (this school: 0.68%)

### ela proficiency
- **TARPON SPRINGS FUNDAMENTAL ELE** — 1.5 mi away, 90.5% (this school: 67.5%)
- **ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL  NORTH PINELLAS** — 2.4 mi away, 94% (this school: 67.5%)
- **SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 74% (this school: 67.5%)
- **PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH** — 4.1 mi away, 79% (this school: 67.5%)
- **PLATO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL TARPON SPRINGS** — 4.3 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 67.5%)

### math proficiency
- **TARPON SPRINGS FUNDAMENTAL ELE** — 1.5 mi away, 90% (this school: 75%)
- **ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL  NORTH PINELLAS** — 2.4 mi away, 100% (this school: 75%)
- **SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 82% (this school: 75%)
- **EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING** — 4.7 mi away, 91% (this school: 75%)
- **JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 76% (this school: 75%)

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