# LAWTON M. CHILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120003003530`
- **School name**: LAWTON M. CHILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: GAINESVILLE, FL 32608
- **Address**: 2525 SCHOOL HOUSE RD
- **District**: ALACHUA (LEAID `1200030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 29.62853, -82.44459
- **Phone**: (352)333-2825

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 692
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: B

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.8% (106 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 9.9% (69 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.3%
- **Black/African American**: 8.0%
- **Asian**: 23.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 48.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 7.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 34.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.9% — 76 students
- **English Learners**: 2.6% — 18 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 33 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,238
- **Federal share**: $1,122
- **State + local share**: $10,116
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,718,967
- **Federal share**: 19.4%
- **State share**: 36.3%
- **Local share**: 44.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,722,889

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $150,441
- **Poverty rate**: 4.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 76.9%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,870
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.0 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.26 miles (MCB OIL PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GRU - MURPHREE WTP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.52865 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KIMBALL WILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 1.93% (this school: 2.15%)
- **KANAPAHA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 1.68% (this school: 2.15%)
- **AMIKIDS** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.15%)
- **THE EINSTEIN SCHOOL INC.** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.15%)
- **HIDDEN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 2.04% (this school: 2.15%)

### ela proficiency
- **HIDDEN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 73% (this school: 72%)
- **HEALTHY LEARNING ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 76% (this school: 72%)
- **P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 86% (this school: 72%)
- **ALACHUA LEARNING ACADEMY MIDDLE** — 12.8 mi away, 89% (this school: 72%)

### math proficiency
- **EXPRESSIONS LEARNING ARTS ACADEMY** — 6.4 mi away, 85% (this school: 71%)
- **P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 87% (this school: 71%)
- **CARING & SHARING LEARNING SCHOOL** — 7.8 mi away, 79% (this school: 71%)
- **BOULWARE SPRINGS CHARTER** — 8.7 mi away, 77% (this school: 71%)
- **MICANOPY AREA COOPERATIVE SCHOOL INC.** — 12.6 mi away, 77% (this school: 71%)

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