# GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001769`
- **School name**: GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33810
- **Address**: 3315 KATHLEEN RD
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.08510, -81.99500
- **Phone**: (863)853-6020

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 431
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 19
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.7%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 36.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 54.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 61.0% proficient
- **Grade 3 ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 36.0% proficient
- **Math Achievement (FL FAST)**: 50.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 56.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 58.0% proficient
- **Percent Economically Disadvantaged (FL)**: 100.0% proficient
- **Science Achievement (FL SSA)**: 53.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 45.5% (153 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.4% (18 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.1% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 32.9% (135 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 37.8%
- **Black/African American**: 2.7%
- **Asian**: 30.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 25.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.3% — 63 students
- **English Learners**: 10.9% — 45 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,997
- **Federal share**: $2,241
- **State + local share**: $8,755
### 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**: $74,788
- **Poverty rate**: 2.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,787
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.3 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.12 miles (CENTRAL FL PLANNING SIKES CAUSEY TRACT)

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

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.88691 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SLEEPY HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 4.23% (this school: 4.38%)
- **SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 3.13% (this school: 4.38%)
- **KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 3.43% (this school: 4.38%)
- **WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING** — 2.4 mi away, 0.38% (this school: 4.38%)
- **LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY** — 2.4 mi away, 0.38% (this school: 4.38%)

### ela proficiency
- **SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 45% (this school: 36%)
- **KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 46% (this school: 36%)
- **WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING** — 2.4 mi away, 72% (this school: 36%)
- **LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY** — 2.4 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 36%)
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY** — 2.5 mi away, 74% (this school: 36%)

### math proficiency
- **WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING** — 2.4 mi away, 73% (this school: 50%)
- **LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY** — 2.4 mi away, 85% (this school: 50%)
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 50%)
- **ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS** — 2.6 mi away, 63% (this school: 50%)
- **LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE ACADEMY** — 3.4 mi away, 67% (this school: 50%)

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