# FOREST RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120027004325`
- **School name**: FOREST RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: HERNANDO, FL 34442
- **Address**: 2927 N FOREST RIDGE BLVD
- **District**: CITRUS (LEAID `1200270`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.90496, -82.44445
- **Phone**: (352)527-1808

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 665
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 37
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 51.0%

## 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 31.6% (222 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.9% (132 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 6
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.0%
- **Black/African American**: 3.7%
- **Asian**: 4.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 66.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.6% — 88 students
- **English Learners**: 3.3% — 23 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 35 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 25 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,538
- **Federal share**: $1,600
- **State + local share**: $8,938
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,322,159
- **Federal share**: 24.9%
- **State share**: 34.9%
- **Local share**: 40.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,869,989

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $54,381
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $966
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 51.7 miles (ZELLWOOD GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 22.85 miles (OCALA AIRPORT TAYLOR FIELD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GREENBRIAR I
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CYPRESS CREEK TREATMENT CENTER** — 4.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.43%)
- **CITRUS SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.0 mi away, 0.82% (this school: 1.43%)
- **LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.5 mi away, 1.19% (this school: 1.43%)
- **DUNNELLON HIGH SCHOOL** — 12.0 mi away, 0.77% (this school: 1.43%)
- **ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE** — 12.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.43%)

### ela proficiency
- **CITRUS SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 58% (this school: 53%)
- **LECANTO PRIMARY SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 53%)
- **LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 54% (this school: 53%)
- **LECANTO HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.5 mi away, 56% (this school: 53%)
- **ROCK CRUSHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 56.5% (this school: 53%)

### math proficiency
- **HERNANDO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 62% (this school: 56%)
- **CITRUS SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 62% (this school: 56%)
- **LECANTO PRIMARY SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 56%)
- **LECANTO MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 68% (this school: 56%)
- **ROCK CRUSHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.8 mi away, 71% (this school: 56%)

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