# TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/tropical-elementary-school-merritt-island/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/tropical-elementary-school-merritt-island

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120015000121`
- **School name**: TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: MERRITT ISLAND, FL 32952
- **Address**: 885 S COURTENAY PKWY
- **District**: BREVARD (LEAID `1200150`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.34140, -80.69593
- **Phone**: (321)454-1080

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 569
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.2%

## 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 27.5% (187 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.3% (101 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 13
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 4.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 74.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 8.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 49.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.1% — 143 students
- **English Learners**: 1.0% — 6 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 62 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 46 students
- **Autism**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,467
- **Federal share**: $1,089
- **State + local share**: $9,379
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,326,331
- **Federal share**: 17.8%
- **State share**: 37.1%
- **Local share**: 45.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,095,245

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,279
- **Poverty rate**: 6.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 34.7%
- **Unemployment**: 1.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,137
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 22.3 miles (HARRIS CORP PALM BAY PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.08 miles (265 E MERRITT ISLAND CAUSEWAY)

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **EDGEWOOD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.45%)
- **ROCKLEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0.71% (this school: 1.45%)
- **MERRITT ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0.94% (this school: 1.45%)
- **RONALD MCNAIR MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 1.13% (this school: 1.45%)
- **NORTH/CENTRAL AREA ALTERNATIVE LEARNING CENTER** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.45%)

### ela proficiency
- **THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 72% (this school: 65%)
- **EDGEWOOD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 93% (this school: 65%)
- **AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 67% (this school: 65%)
- **LEWIS CARROLL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 65%)
- **ROBERT L. STEVENSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 87.5% (this school: 65%)

### math proficiency
- **THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 75% (this school: 60%)
- **EDGEWOOD JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 97% (this school: 60%)
- **AUDUBON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 69% (this school: 60%)
- **JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 68% (this school: 60%)
- **LEWIS CARROLL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 60%)

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