# DESOTO SECONDARY SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120042006813`
- **School name**: DESOTO SECONDARY SCHOOL
- **Location**: ARCADIA, FL 34266
- **Address**: 318 N WILSON AVE
- **District**: DESOTO (LEAID `1200420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 27.22502, -81.86858
- **Phone**: (863)494-9303

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 51
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 1
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 51.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.9%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 49.5% (cohort of 25)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 12

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 149.3% (109 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.9% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 80.9% (55 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 11.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 57.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 41.2% — 28 students
- **English Learners**: 1.5% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,947
- **Federal share**: $3,089
- **State + local share**: $9,858
### 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)**: 48.8 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.58 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

### graduation rate
- **DESOTO COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 82% (this school: 49.5%)

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