# DESOTO MIDDLE SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/desoto-middle-school-arcadia/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/desoto-middle-school-arcadia

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120042000624`
- **School name**: DESOTO MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: ARCADIA, FL 34266
- **Address**: 420 E GIBSON ST
- **District**: DESOTO (LEAID `1200420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.22307, -81.85059
- **Phone**: (863)494-4133

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 922
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 56
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 57.5%

## 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 46.4% (459 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.7% (240 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 148
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 50.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.9%
- **Asian**: 10.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 35.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 70.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.8% — 140 students
- **English Learners**: 5.3% — 54 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 67 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 28 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,629
- **Federal share**: $3,130
- **State + local share**: $8,500
### 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**: $40,577
- **Poverty rate**: 25.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.3%
- **Unemployment**: 1.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $842
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 38.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 49.7 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.46 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
- **MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0.98% (this school: 0.99%)
- **DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 0.56% (this school: 0.99%)
- **REDUCED SERVICES** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.99%)
- **WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0.44% (this school: 0.99%)
- **DESOTO SECONDARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.99%)

### ela proficiency
- **WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 48% (this school: 43%)

### math proficiency
- **WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 58% (this school: 51%)
- **NOCATEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 55% (this school: 51%)

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