# DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120108003417`
- **School name**: DIPLOMAT MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: CAPE CORAL, FL 33909
- **Address**: 1039 NE 16TH TER
- **District**: LEE (LEAID `1201080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.68482, -81.95044
- **Phone**: (239)574-5257

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,097
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 49.0%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.9% (185 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.5% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.4% (172 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 36
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 41.7%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 5.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 46.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.1% — 113 students
- **English Learners**: 5.9% — 55 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 33 students
- **Autism**: 28 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,169
- **Federal share**: $1,082
- **State + local share**: $11,087
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,926,191
- **Federal share**: 17.0%
- **State share**: 25.0%
- **Local share**: 58.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,235,380

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $68,283
- **Poverty rate**: 11.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.1%
- **Unemployment**: 0.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,789
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 75.9 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.86 miles (2500 FIRST STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CAPE CORAL, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.74021 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **DIPLOMAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 61.5% (this school: 61%)
- **NORTH FORT MYERS HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 68% (this school: 61%)
- **CHALLENGER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 67% (this school: 61%)
- **OASIS ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL-NORTH** — 5.8 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 61%)
- **EDISON PARK CREATIVE AND EXPRESSIVE ARTS SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 64.5% (this school: 61%)

### math proficiency
- **DIPLOMAT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 77% (this school: 55%)
- **DR CARRIE D ROBINSON LITTLETON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 57% (this school: 55%)
- **TROPIC ISLES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 56% (this school: 55%)
- **CALOOSA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 57% (this school: 55%)
- **CALOOSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 68% (this school: 55%)

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