# RIDGECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ridgecrest-elementary-school-largo/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ridgecrest-elementary-school-largo

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156001670`
- **School name**: RIDGECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: LARGO, FL 33778
- **Address**: 1901 119TH ST
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.89947, -82.80247
- **Phone**: (727)588-3580

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 438
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 58.0%

## 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 28.9% (176 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.6% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.2% (113 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.1%
- **Black/African American**: 9.3%
- **Asian**: 30.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 40.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.8%
- **Two or more races**: 7.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.1% — 59 students
- **English Learners**: 5.8% — 31 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 39 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,659
- **Federal share**: $930
- **State + local share**: $11,729
### 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**: $63,173
- **Poverty rate**: 15.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 23.1%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,667
- **Foreign-born residents**: 22.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.5 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 44
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.22 miles (FORMER BASKIN DRY CLEANERS)

### 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**: 5.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PLATO SEMINOLE** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.25%)
- **FUGUITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.25%)
- **LARGO HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 2.25%)
- **ANONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.25%)
- **SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 1.41% (this school: 2.25%)

### ela proficiency
- **MILDRED HELMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 63.5%)
- **FUGUITT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 66% (this school: 63.5%)
- **ANONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 67% (this school: 63.5%)
- **SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 66.5% (this school: 63.5%)
- **OAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 69.5% (this school: 63.5%)

### math proficiency
- **MILDRED HELMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 69% (this school: 65%)
- **ANONA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 77% (this school: 65%)
- **SOUTHERN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 68% (this school: 65%)
- **OAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 78% (this school: 65%)
- **PONCE DE LEON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 76% (this school: 65%)

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