# KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120162001800`
- **School name**: KELLEY SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALATKA, FL 32177
- **Address**: 141 KELLEY SMITH SCHOOL RD
- **District**: PUTNAM (LEAID `1201620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–6
- **Coordinates**: 29.63269, -81.70737
- **Phone**: (386)329-0568

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 776
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 47.7%

## 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 47.8% (238 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.5% (26 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 27.8% (209 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 7
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 4.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 22.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 68.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 62.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.0% — 98 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 29 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 28 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,356
- **Federal share**: $3,224
- **State + local share**: $9,132
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,562,922
- **Federal share**: 29.7%
- **State share**: 44.0%
- **Local share**: 26.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,191,356

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $49,133
- **Poverty rate**: 18.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.2%
- **Unemployment**: 1.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $965
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 37.1 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.08 miles (FLORIDA ROCK PROPERTIES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: R. C. WILLIS WTP (CITY OF PALATKA)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 68
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-04-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **THE CHILDREN'S READING CENTER** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.66%)
- **PUTNAM VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 4.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.66%)
- **ST. JOHNS COUNTY JAIL (DJJ)** — 14.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.66%)

### ela proficiency
- **THE CHILDREN'S READING CENTER** — 0.8 mi away, 78% (this school: 45%)
- **PUTNAM ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES** — 2.8 mi away, 50% (this school: 45%)
- **JAMES A. LONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 49% (this school: 45%)
- **PUTNAM VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM (DISTRICT PROVIDED)** — 4.8 mi away, 77% (this school: 45%)
- **BROWNING-PEARCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.7 mi away, 46% (this school: 45%)

### math proficiency
- **THE CHILDREN'S READING CENTER** — 0.8 mi away, 85% (this school: 55%)
- **PUTNAM VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM (DISTRICT PROVIDED)** — 4.8 mi away, 58% (this school: 55%)
- **Q.I. ROBERTS JR. - SR. HIGH SCHOOL** — 10.6 mi away, 86% (this school: 55%)

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