# WARDS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/wards-creek-elementary-school-st-augustine

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120174007272`
- **School name**: WARDS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: ST AUGUSTINE, FL 32092
- **Address**: 6555 STATE ROAD 16
- **District**: ST. JOHNS (LEAID `1201740`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 29.97250, -81.52326
- **Phone**: (904)547-8730

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,156
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 74
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 21.5%

## 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 8.4% (54 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.7% (81 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.2%
- **Asian**: 3.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 73.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 20.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.4% — 126 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 43 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 40 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Deaf-Blindness**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,320
- **Federal share**: $558
- **State + local share**: $8,762
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $11,868,900
- **Federal share**: 6.7%
- **State share**: 37.4%
- **Local share**: 56.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,183,315

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $109,850
- **Poverty rate**: 9.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 54.6%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,511
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 19.6 miles (JACKSONVILLE NAVAL AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 8.47 miles (CLAY COUNTY PORT PIER 3)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: SJCU-CR214 MAINLAND WTP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.44371 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **MILL CREEK ACADEMY** — 2.0 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 73%)
- **PACETTI BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 75% (this school: 73%)
- **TIMBERLIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 73%)
- **LIBERTY PINES ACADEMY** — 7.4 mi away, 77.5% (this school: 73%)
- **PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY** — 7.7 mi away, 83% (this school: 73%)

### math proficiency
- **MILL CREEK ACADEMY** — 2.0 mi away, 81% (this school: 75%)
- **PACETTI BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 81% (this school: 75%)
- **TIMBERLIN CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 83% (this school: 75%)
- **LIBERTY PINES ACADEMY** — 7.4 mi away, 83% (this school: 75%)
- **PATRIOT OAKS ACADEMY** — 7.7 mi away, 89% (this school: 75%)

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