# DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/discovery-academy-of-science-dunedin/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/discovery-academy-of-science-dunedin

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156008262`
- **School name**: DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
- **Location**: DUNEDIN, FL 34698
- **Address**: 1120 CURLEW RD
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Grade range**: 0–8
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 28.04961, -82.77635
- **Phone**: (727)369-6361

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 722
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 28.1%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.7% (39 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 3.3% (22 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 11.3%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 4.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 75.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 35.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.9% — 39 students
- **English Learners**: 0.8% — 5 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,557
- **Federal share**: $689
- **State + local share**: $8,868
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,667,582
- **Federal share**: 18.3%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 56.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,792,259

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $70,054
- **Poverty rate**: 7.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 44.7%
- **Unemployment**: 0.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,323
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.1 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.80 miles (1455 VIRGINIA AVENUE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DUNEDIN WATER SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10203 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY** — 1.8 mi away, 89.5% (this school: 85.5%)
- **CURTIS FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTARY** — 3.2 mi away, 90% (this school: 85.5%)
- **ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL  NORTH PINELLAS** — 5.3 mi away, 94% (this school: 85.5%)
- **TARPON SPRINGS FUNDAMENTAL ELE** — 6.4 mi away, 90.5% (this school: 85.5%)
- **EAST LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING** — 7.1 mi away, 86% (this school: 85.5%)

### math proficiency
- **CLEARWATER FUNDAMENTAL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.1 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL  NORTH PINELLAS** — 5.3 mi away, 100% (this school: 91%)
- **BRYANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.9 mi away, 92% (this school: 91%)
- **WALKER MIDDLE MAGNET SCHOOL** — 12.9 mi away, 93% (this school: 91%)

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