Public school / Middle / Charter
Putnam Academy of Arts and Sciences
Palatka, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120162008064
- District
- Putnam
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Putnam Academy of Arts and Sciences is a public middle school in Palatka, Florida, run by Putnam. It enrols 177 students — the 80290th largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
177
Teachers
1.0
Students per teacher
177.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
75.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Putnam
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Palatka Jr - Sr High School1,639 students
- 2Interlachen Jr-Sr High School1,097 students
- 3Middleton-Burney Elementary School1,046 students
- 4Crescent City Jr-Sr High School1,005 students
- 5Robert H. Jenkins Jr Elementary School904 students
- 6Kelley Smith Elementary School753 students
- 7Browning-Pearce Elementary School660 students
- 8William D. Moseley Elementary School609 students
- Enrollment−71.2%
- Teachers−97.4%
- Students per teacher+947.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+30.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory