# BUDDY TAYLOR MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/buddy-taylor-middle-school-palm-coast

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120054002170`
- **School name**: BUDDY TAYLOR MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALM COAST, FL 32164
- **Address**: 4500 BELLE TERRE PKWY
- **District**: FLAGLER (LEAID `1200540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 29.52944, -81.22403
- **Phone**: (386)446-6700

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,310
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 62
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: C

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 43.6% (387 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.0% (27 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.9% (251 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 60
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.8%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 18.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 55.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 7.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.8% — 170 students
- **English Learners**: 2.4% — 32 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 98 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,286
- **Federal share**: $1,428
- **State + local share**: $7,860
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,941,969
- **Federal share**: 15.3%
- **State share**: 29.3%
- **Local share**: 55.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,818,826

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $63,718
- **Poverty rate**: 11.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 25.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,656
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 32.5 miles (SHERWOOD MEDICAL INDUSTRIES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.42 miles (EAST FLAGLER MOSQUITO CONTROL DISTRICT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PALM COAST UTILITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LEWIS E. WADSWORTH ELEMENTARY** — 0.2 mi away, 1.08% (this school: 2.04%)
- **RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 1.18% (this school: 2.04%)
- **IMAGINE SCHOOL AT TOWN CENTER** — 3.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.04%)
- **FLAGLER-PALM COAST HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 0.98% (this school: 2.04%)
- **IFLAGLER-VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 3.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.04%)

### ela proficiency
- **LEWIS E. WADSWORTH ELEMENTARY** — 0.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 53%)
- **RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 60.5% (this school: 53%)
- **IMAGINE SCHOOL AT TOWN CENTER** — 3.3 mi away, 56% (this school: 53%)
- **FLAGLER-PALM COAST HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 56% (this school: 53%)
- **IFLAGLER-VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 3.8 mi away, 57% (this school: 53%)

### math proficiency
- **LEWIS E. WADSWORTH ELEMENTARY** — 0.2 mi away, 67% (this school: 59%)
- **RYMFIRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 67% (this school: 59%)
- **INDIAN TRAILS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 69% (this school: 59%)
- **BELLE TERRE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 64% (this school: 59%)
- **BUNNELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 65% (this school: 59%)

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