# LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039000452`
- **School name**: LAURA C. SAUNDERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: HOMESTEAD, FL 33030
- **Address**: 505 SW 8TH ST
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 25.46309, -80.48403
- **Phone**: (305)247-3933

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 498
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 66.7%

## 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 57.9% (304 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.5% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.3% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 26.7% (132 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 39.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 59.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 72.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 73 students
- **English Learners**: 32.2% — 159 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 30 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 22 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,250
- **Federal share**: $2,969
- **State + local share**: $10,281
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,452,063
- **Federal share**: 19.5%
- **State share**: 23.3%
- **Local share**: 57.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,807,498

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $22,438
- **Poverty rate**: 40.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.6%
- **Unemployment**: 8.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,131
- **Foreign-born residents**: 46.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 59.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.7 miles (HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.74 miles (KROME ASSEMBLAGE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HOMESTEAD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.29318 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.48%)
- **LINCOLN-MARTI SCHOOLS (INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS)** — 0.7 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 6.48%)
- **CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS)** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.48%)
- **ACCELERATION ACADEMIES LLC HOMESTEAD** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 6.48%)
- **WEST HOMESTEAD K-8 CENTER** — 0.7 mi away, 5.45% (this school: 6.48%)

### ela proficiency
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD** — 0.6 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 23%)
- **LINCOLN-MARTI SCHOOLS (INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS)** — 0.7 mi away, 63% (this school: 23%)
- **CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS)** — 0.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 23%)
- **WEST HOMESTEAD K-8 CENTER** — 0.7 mi away, 26.5% (this school: 23%)
- **FLORIDA CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 30.5% (this school: 23%)

### math proficiency
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD** — 0.6 mi away, 81% (this school: 50%)
- **LINCOLN-MARTI SCHOOLS (INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS)** — 0.7 mi away, 93% (this school: 50%)
- **CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS (FLORIDA CITY CAMPUS)** — 0.7 mi away, 88% (this school: 50%)
- **HOMESTEAD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 53% (this school: 50%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (SOUTH HOMESTEAD)** — 1.0 mi away, 70% (this school: 50%)

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