# ASCEND CAREER ACADEMY

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/ascend-career-academy-margate

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120018008473`
- **School name**: ASCEND CAREER ACADEMY
- **Location**: MARGATE, FL 33063
- **Address**: 5251 COCONUT CREEK PKWY
- **District**: BROWARD (LEAID `1200180`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 26.24604, -80.19743
- **Phone**: (954)978-4555

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 215
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 0
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 7.4%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 57.0% (cohort of 99)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 14

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 107.2% (238 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.3% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 13.1% (29 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 28.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 53.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 13.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 100.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.5% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 6.8% — 15 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $6,008
- **Federal share**: $1,328
- **State + local share**: $4,680
### 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**: $60,153
- **Poverty rate**: 8.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,865
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.3 miles (HOLLINGSWORTH SOLDERLESS TERMINAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 50
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.00 miles (FORMER SABALS GOLF COURSE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MARGATE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.40833 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **WEST BROWARD ACADEMY** — 0.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **SUNED HIGH SCHOOL OF NORTH BROWARD** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **ATLANTIC TECHNICAL COLLEGE** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **MARGATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0.38% (this school: 1.35%)
- **COCONUT CREEK HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0.67% (this school: 1.35%)

### graduation rate
- **ATLANTIC TECHNICAL COLLEGE** — 0.4 mi away, 100% (this school: 57%)
- **DAVE THOMAS EDUCATION CENTER WEST** — 0.6 mi away, 61% (this school: 57%)
- **COCONUT CREEK HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 89% (this school: 57%)
- **BROWARD VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 0.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 57%)
- **SOMERSET PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH AT NORTH LAUDERDA** — 2.4 mi away, 84.5% (this school: 57%)

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