# VIRGIL MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/virgil-mills-elementary-school-palmetto/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/virgil-mills-elementary-school-palmetto

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120123004204`
- **School name**: VIRGIL MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALMETTO, FL 34221
- **Address**: 7200 69TH ST E
- **District**: MANATEE (LEAID `1201230`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.57533, -82.49030
- **Phone**: (941)721-2140

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 863
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 51
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.3%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.2% (149 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.5% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.2% (135 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 4
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.2%
- **Black/African American**: 3.5%
- **Asian**: 7.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 63.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 43.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.2% — 143 students
- **English Learners**: 3.7% — 31 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 83 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Autism**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,313
- **Federal share**: $1,294
- **State + local share**: $10,019
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,178,574
- **Federal share**: 15.9%
- **State share**: 25.8%
- **Local share**: 58.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,593,675

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $107,853
- **Poverty rate**: 5.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.2%
- **Unemployment**: 0.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,768
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.2 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.34 miles (PROPOSED ONECO CONCRETE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PALMETTO WATER DEPT.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.78944 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 19.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PARRISH CHARTER ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.24%)
- **ANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.24%)
- **THE PORT ACADEMY** — 5.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.24%)
- **MANATEE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM** — 5.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.24%)
- **MANATEE VIRTUAL SCHOOL ( VIRTUAL FRANCHISE)** — 5.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.24%)

### ela proficiency
- **ANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.6 mi away, 70% (this school: 64%)
- **FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.5 mi away, 69.5% (this school: 64%)
- **PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 6.6 mi away, 81.5% (this school: 64%)
- **GENE WITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.3 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 64%)
- **ROWLETT MIDDLE ACADEMY** — 8.4 mi away, 73% (this school: 64%)

### math proficiency
- **BARBARA A HARVEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 72% (this school: 69%)
- **JAMES TILLMAN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 78% (this school: 69%)
- **ANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.6 mi away, 76% (this school: 69%)
- **FREEDOM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.5 mi away, 72% (this school: 69%)
- **PALMETTO CHARTER SCHOOL** — 6.6 mi away, 90% (this school: 69%)

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