# MELLON LEARNING CENTER

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mellon-learning-center-palatka/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mellon-learning-center-palatka

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120162002530`
- **School name**: MELLON LEARNING CENTER
- **Location**: PALATKA, FL 32177
- **Address**: 301 MELLON ROAD
- **District**: PUTNAM (LEAID `1201620`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **School level**: Other
- **Coordinates**: 29.64505, -81.66688
- **Phone**: (386)329-0593

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 297
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 35.0%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 11)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 69.6% (80 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.7% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 28.5% (83 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 31.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 53.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 73.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 39.2% — 114 students
- **English Learners**: 0.3% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Intellectual Disability**: 46 students
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $38,717
- **Federal share**: $21,690
- **State + local share**: $17,027
### 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**: $35,481
- **Poverty rate**: 36.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.2%
- **Unemployment**: 14.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $798
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 21.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 39.5 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.61 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
- **PALATKA JR - SR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 1.31% (this school: 1.72%)
- **PUTNAM ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES** — 0.3 mi away, 1.03% (this school: 1.72%)
- **JAMES A. LONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 1.66% (this school: 1.72%)
- **THE CHILDREN'S READING CENTER** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.72%)
- **PUTNAM VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.72%)

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