# THE CHILDREN'S READING CENTER

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/the-children-s-reading-center-palatka/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/the-children-s-reading-center-palatka

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120162004139`
- **School name**: THE CHILDREN'S READING CENTER
- **Location**: PALATKA, FL 32177
- **Address**: 7901 SAINT JOHNS AVE
- **District**: PUTNAM (LEAID `1201620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 29.64463, -81.70374
- **Phone**: (386)326-2762

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 275
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 0
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 37.8%

## 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 18.4% (43 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.2% (29 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 3.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 24.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 66.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 47.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.2% — 24 students
- **English Learners**: 0.4% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,396
- **Federal share**: $668
- **State + local share**: $8,728
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,562,922
- **Federal share**: 29.7%
- **State share**: 44.0%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,191,356

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $49,133
- **Poverty rate**: 18.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.2%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $965
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 37.2 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.60 miles (FLORIDA ROCK PROPERTIES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: R. C. WILLIS WTP (CITY OF PALATKA)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 68
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Q.I. ROBERTS JR. - SR. HIGH SCHOOL** — 10.3 mi away, 88% (this school: 78%)

### math proficiency
- **Q.I. ROBERTS JR. - SR. HIGH SCHOOL** — 10.3 mi away, 86% (this school: 85%)

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