# COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120036000358`
- **School name**: COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKE CITY, FL 32025
- **Address**: 469 SE FIGHTING TIGER DR
- **District**: COLUMBIA (LEAID `1200360`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 30.14788, -82.63557
- **Phone**: (386)755-8080
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5149718 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_High_School_(Florida)
- **Founded**: 1888

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,711
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 74
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.8%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 88.0%
- **2021**: 95.0% (cohort of 440)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 566

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 71.5% (1,338 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.8% (66 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 24.6% (424 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 144
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.2%
- **Asian**: 26.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 59.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 58.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.5% — 251 students
- **English Learners**: 0.9% — 15 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 95 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 64 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 51 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,484
- **Federal share**: $1,828
- **State + local share**: $7,656
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $11,406,127
- **Federal share**: 26.9%
- **State share**: 52.5%
- **Local share**: 20.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,738,184

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $46,544
- **Poverty rate**: 10.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.9%
- **Unemployment**: 1.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $945
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 37.7 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 19.24 miles (SW 119TH LOOP PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF LAKE CITY (PRICE CREEK WTP)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PREK ESE** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.91%)
- **EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 1.2% (this school: 1.91%)
- **WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 1.82% (this school: 1.91%)
- **BELMONT ACADEMY** — 5.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.91%)
- **COLUMBIA CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 1.19% (this school: 1.91%)

### ela proficiency
- **RICHARDSON SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY** — 2.4 mi away, 58% (this school: 51%)
- **EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 58% (this school: 51%)
- **WESTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 70% (this school: 51%)
- **BELMONT ACADEMY** — 5.8 mi away, 85% (this school: 51%)
- **COLUMBIA CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 53.5% (this school: 51%)

### graduation rate
- **BELMONT ACADEMY** — 5.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 88%)

### math proficiency
- **SUMMERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 60% (this school: 41%)
- **RICHARDSON SIXTH GRADE ACADEMY** — 2.4 mi away, 57% (this school: 41%)
- **LAKE CITY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 60% (this school: 41%)
- **MELROSE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 58% (this school: 41%)
- **EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 68% (this school: 41%)

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