Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6
Kelley Smith Elementary School, Palatka, FL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 776
- Teachers (FTE)
- 39.0
- Students per teacher
- 19.9
- Grades
- K to 6
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 20.7. The Florida average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 141 Kelley Smith School Rd, Palatka, FL 32177
- Phone
- (386)329-0568
- District
- Putnam County Public Schools
- County
- Putnam County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Town: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 120162001800
School meals
- Free lunch
- 346
- Reduced-price lunch
- 24
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 37047.7% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 346Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Putnam County Public Schools
- Middleton-Burney Elementary School 1,056 students
- Robert H. Jenkins Jr Elementary School 844 students
- Browning-Pearce Elementary School 679 students
- James A. Long Elementary School 565 students
- William D. Moseley Elementary School 558 students
- Ochwilla Elementary School 388 students
- Melrose Elementary School 353 students
- The Children'S Reading Center 275 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.