# COTTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120096001076`
- **School name**: COTTONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: COTTONDALE, FL 32431
- **Address**: 2766 LEVY ST
- **District**: JACKSON (LEAID `1200960`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 30.79311, -85.36673
- **Phone**: (850)482-9820

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 471
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 32
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 54.6%

## 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 44.2% (188 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 5.0% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.7% (100 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 17.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 67.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.0% — 97 students
- **English Learners**: 0.2% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 32 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,580
- **Federal share**: $1,747
- **State + local share**: $8,833
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,457,650
- **Federal share**: 25.6%
- **State share**: 51.6%
- **Local share**: 22.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,724,515

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $46,888
- **Poverty rate**: 18.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,169
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.7 miles (SAPP BATTERY SALVAGE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.43 miles (JACKSON COUNTY PROPOSED GAS STATION REDEVELOPMENT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: COTTONDALE WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2018-11-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **JACKSON COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER** — 7.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.99%)
- **DIST WIDE HOMEBOUND PROGRAM** — 8.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.99%)
- **JACKSON VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM** — 8.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.99%)
- **MARIANNA HIGH SCHOOL** — 10.0 mi away, 2.84% (this school: 4.99%)
- **WASHINGTON VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM** — 10.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.99%)

### ela proficiency
- **COTTONDALE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 69% (this school: 59.5%)

### math proficiency
- **COTTONDALE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 68% (this school: 50%)
- **MARIANNA HIGH SCHOOL** — 10.0 mi away, 53% (this school: 50%)
- **KATE M. SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 11.2 mi away, 56% (this school: 50%)
- **ROULHAC MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 11.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 50%)
- **MARIANNA K-8 SCHOOL** — 11.4 mi away, 54% (this school: 50%)

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