# TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120018000200`
- **School name**: TROPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: PLANTATION, FL 33317
- **Address**: 1500 SW 66TH AVE
- **District**: BROWARD (LEAID `1200180`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.10345, -80.23509
- **Phone**: (754)323-7750

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 791
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 45
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 31.9%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 66.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 61.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 55.0% proficient
- **Grade 3 ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 67.0% proficient
- **Math Achievement (FL FAST)**: 68.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 68.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 49.0% proficient
- **Percent Economically Disadvantaged (FL)**: 56.0% proficient
- **Science Achievement (FL SSA)**: 58.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.9% (99 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.9% (101 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 36.7%
- **Black/African American**: 4.3%
- **Asian**: 17.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 38.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 38.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.9% — 187 students
- **English Learners**: 8.8% — 69 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 45 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 35 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 35 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 27 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,696
- **Federal share**: $1,601
- **State + local share**: $11,094
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,881,634
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 31.2%
- **Local share**: 49.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,878,709

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $140,723
- **Poverty rate**: 3.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 54.9%
- **Unemployment**: 7.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $3,264
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.9 miles (FLORIDA PETROLEUM REPROCESSORS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.98 miles (SISTRUNK BTW NW 15TH AVE AND 15 TERR)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PLANTATION, EAST ; CENTRAL
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.55094 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SEMINOLE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 0.89%)
- **SOUTH PLANTATION HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0.7% (this school: 0.89%)
- **MCFATTER TECHNICAL COLLEGE** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.89%)
- **IMAGINE SCHOOLS PLANTATION CAMPUS** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.89%)
- **MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 0.89%)

### ela proficiency
- **PLANTATION PARK ELEMENTARY** — 0.9 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 66.5%)
- **MCFATTER TECHNICAL COLLEGE** — 1.3 mi away, 94% (this school: 66.5%)
- **IMAGINE SCHOOLS PLANTATION CAMPUS** — 1.4 mi away, 82% (this school: 66.5%)
- **NOVA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 67% (this school: 66.5%)
- **NOVA BLANCHE FORMAN ELEMENTARY** — 1.9 mi away, 70% (this school: 66.5%)

### math proficiency
- **PLANTATION PARK ELEMENTARY** — 0.9 mi away, 77% (this school: 68%)
- **MCFATTER TECHNICAL COLLEGE** — 1.3 mi away, 82% (this school: 68%)
- **IMAGINE SCHOOLS PLANTATION CAMPUS** — 1.4 mi away, 85% (this school: 68%)
- **NOVA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 73% (this school: 68%)
- **NOVA BLANCHE FORMAN ELEMENTARY** — 1.9 mi away, 72% (this school: 68%)

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