# PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ponce-de-leon-elementary-school-clearwater

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156001669`
- **School name**: PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: CLEARWATER, FL 33756
- **Address**: 1301 PONCE DE LEON BLVD
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.93428, -82.78437
- **Phone**: (727)588-3573

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 546
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 35.2% (175 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.8% (26 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 20.7% (113 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 34.6%
- **Black/African American**: 3.0%
- **Asian**: 29.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 3.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 79.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.1% — 115 students
- **English Learners**: 24.2% — 132 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 38 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 31 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 26 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $15,579
- **Federal share**: $1,819
- **State + local share**: $13,760
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,667,582
- **Federal share**: 18.3%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 56.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,792,259

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $90,052
- **Poverty rate**: 7.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,313
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.1 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 41
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.44 miles (1562 1566 S MISSOURI AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PINELLAS COUNTY UTILITIES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10203 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PINELLAS ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.48%)
- **LARGO HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 3.48%)
- **MILDRED HELMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 3.45% (this school: 3.48%)
- **LARGO MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 2.95% (this school: 3.48%)
- **PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 2.87% (this school: 3.48%)

### ela proficiency
- **CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 84% (this school: 72.5%)
- **PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER** — 3.4 mi away, 75.5% (this school: 72.5%)
- **KINGS HIGHWAY ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 74% (this school: 72.5%)
- **CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY** — 4.8 mi away, 90% (this school: 72.5%)
- **OSCEOLA FUNDAMENTAL HIGH** — 5.2 mi away, 78% (this school: 72.5%)

### math proficiency
- **PLUMB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 79% (this school: 76%)
- **CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 92% (this school: 76%)
- **PLATO ACADEMY CLEARWATER** — 3.4 mi away, 83% (this school: 76%)
- **ANONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 77% (this school: 76%)
- **CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY** — 4.8 mi away, 91% (this school: 76%)

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