# WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001750`
- **School name**: WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: AUBURNDALE, FL 33823
- **Address**: 141 DAIRY RD
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.07118, -81.77560
- **Phone**: (863)965-5470

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 887
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 54
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.7%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 43.5% (316 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.7% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.6% (41 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.5% (139 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 37.1%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 24.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 34.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 71.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.4% — 102 students
- **English Learners**: 8.9% — 80 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,152
- **Federal share**: $1,895
- **State + local share**: $8,257
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,489,537
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 43.8%
- **Local share**: 35.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,033,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $51,641
- **Poverty rate**: 25.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $922
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.6 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 29
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.98 miles (LAKE ALFRED SHINN BLVD SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: AUBURNDALE, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.88691 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **AUBURNDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 1.8% (this school: 3.69%)
- **HARTRIDGE ACADEMY** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.69%)
- **NEW BEGINNINGS HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 0.96% (this school: 3.69%)
- **LAKE ALFRED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 3.52% (this school: 3.69%)
- **LAKE ALFRED POLYTECH ACADEMY** — 3.7 mi away, 0.78% (this school: 3.69%)

### ela proficiency
- **HARTRIDGE ACADEMY** — 1.8 mi away, 73% (this school: 49.5%)
- **LAKE ALFRED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 51% (this school: 49.5%)
- **DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF LAKE ALFRED** — 3.8 mi away, 57% (this school: 49.5%)
- **JEWETT MIDDLE ACADEMY MAGNET** — 3.9 mi away, 66% (this school: 49.5%)
- **CLARENCE BOSWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 55% (this school: 49.5%)

### math proficiency
- **HARTRIDGE ACADEMY** — 1.8 mi away, 82% (this school: 55%)
- **JEWETT MIDDLE ACADEMY MAGNET** — 3.9 mi away, 68% (this school: 55%)
- **CLARENCE BOSWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 62% (this school: 55%)
- **CHAIN OF LAKES COLLEGIATE HIGH** — 4.7 mi away, 68% (this school: 55%)
- **FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY** — 5.0 mi away, 81% (this school: 55%)

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