# DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120042000620`
- **School name**: DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: ARCADIA, FL 34266
- **Address**: 1710 E GIBSON ST
- **District**: DESOTO (LEAID `1200420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 27.22266, -81.83895
- **Phone**: (863)494-3434
- **Wikidata QID**: Q16960072 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_County_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,215
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 68
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 50.9%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 82.0%
- **2021**: 86.0% (cohort of 301)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 370

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 40.0% (468 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 30.9% (389 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 20
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 49.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 10.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 37.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 2.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.6% — 134 students
- **English Learners**: 3.8% — 48 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 65 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,151
- **Federal share**: $3,447
- **State + local share**: $9,705
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,485,114
- **Federal share**: 28.1%
- **State share**: 47.5%
- **Local share**: 24.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,540,280

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $62,130
- **Poverty rate**: 24.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.3%
- **Unemployment**: 10.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $994
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 50.3 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.16 miles (ARCADIA HOUSING AUTHORITY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ARCADIA WATER DEPT, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **REDUCED SERVICES** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.56%)
- **WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0.44% (this school: 0.56%)
- **DESOTO SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.56%)
- **NOCATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 0.56%)

### ela proficiency
- **DESOTO MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 43% (this school: 41%)
- **WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 48% (this school: 41%)

### math proficiency
- **DESOTO MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 51% (this school: 39%)
- **MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 51% (this school: 39%)
- **WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 58% (this school: 39%)
- **NOCATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 55% (this school: 39%)

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