# DALE CASSENS EDUCATION COMPLEX

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120177004149`
- **School name**: DALE CASSENS EDUCATION COMPLEX
- **Location**: FORT PIERCE, FL 34950
- **Address**: 1905 S 11TH ST
- **District**: ST. LUCIE (LEAID `1201770`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Coordinates**: 27.42964, -80.33481
- **Phone**: (772)468-5190

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 218
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 68.8%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 24)

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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 111.5% (252 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.9% (38 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 15.1% (32 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 77.8% (165 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 57.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 14.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 48.1% — 102 students
- **English Learners**: 10.4% — 22 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 27 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,693
- **Federal share**: $5,767
- **State + local share**: $29,925
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,866,161
- **Federal share**: 17.6%
- **State share**: 35.5%
- **Local share**: 46.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,489,086

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $32,917
- **Poverty rate**: 39.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.4%
- **Unemployment**: 24.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,319
- **Foreign-born residents**: 34.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.8 miles (PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP VERO BEACH WATER SEWER DEPARTMENT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.96 miles (FLORIDA AVENUE SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FT. PIERCE UTILITIES AUTHORITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-08-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.31284 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ST. LUCIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 7.1% (this school: 17.92%)
- **DAN MCCARTY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 8.16% (this school: 17.92%)
- **LAWNWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 3.32% (this school: 17.92%)
- **CREATIVE ARTS ACADEMY OF ST. LUCIE** — 1.0 mi away, 2.56% (this school: 17.92%)
- **FAIRLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 17.92%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/dale-cassens-education-complex-fort-pierce/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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