# WALDEN LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/walden-lake-elementary-school-plant-city

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120087002830`
- **School name**: WALDEN LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: PLANT CITY, FL 33566
- **Address**: 2800 TURKEY CREEK RD
- **District**: HILLSBOROUGH (LEAID `1200870`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.97712, -82.16925
- **Phone**: (813)757-9433

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 809
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.4%

## 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 20.1% (157 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.8% (100 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 32.8%
- **Black/African American**: 1.8%
- **Asian**: 8.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 54.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 48.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.3% — 130 students
- **English Learners**: 13.4% — 114 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 53 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,815
- **Federal share**: $1,535
- **State + local share**: $9,281
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,612,026
- **Federal share**: 16.1%
- **State share**: 40.7%
- **Local share**: 43.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,180,924

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $97,536
- **Poverty rate**: 8.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 32.3%
- **Unemployment**: 7.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,034
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.1 miles (SYDNEY MINE SLUDGE PONDS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.62 miles (HOPPY S PAINT BODY SHOP)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PLANT CITY UTILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.66137 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **WILLIS PETERS EXCEPTIONAL CENTER** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **SIMMONS EXCEPTIONAL CENTER** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **SIMMONS CAREER CENTER** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **ADVANTAGE ACADEMY OF HILLSBOROUGH** — 3.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)
- **LINCOLN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.35%)

### ela proficiency
- **VALRICO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.6 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 64%)
- **LITHIA SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.6 mi away, 72% (this school: 64%)
- **BLOOMINGDALE HIGH SCHOOL** — 7.7 mi away, 71% (this school: 64%)
- **ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.8 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 64%)
- **CIMINO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.3 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 64%)

### math proficiency
- **VALRICO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.6 mi away, 75% (this school: 70%)
- **LITHIA SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.6 mi away, 82% (this school: 70%)
- **ALAFIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.8 mi away, 74% (this school: 70%)
- **CIMINO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.3 mi away, 74% (this school: 70%)
- **RANDALL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 8.6 mi away, 88% (this school: 70%)

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