# F. W. BUCHHOLZ HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120003000029`
- **School name**: F. W. BUCHHOLZ HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: GAINESVILLE, FL 32606
- **Address**: 5510 NW 27TH AVE
- **District**: ALACHUA (LEAID `1200030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.67860, -82.40214
- **Phone**: (352)955-6702
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4982701 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchholz_High_School
- **Founded**: 1971

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,416
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 87
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 27.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 34.5%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.0%
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 533)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 748

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 17.7% (397 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (24 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 35.5% (867 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 24
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.7%
- **Black/African American**: 7.5%
- **Asian**: 21.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 51.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 36.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.9% — 217 students
- **English Learners**: 0.7% — 17 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 142 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 27 students
- **Autism**: 18 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 18 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,066
- **Federal share**: $570
- **State + local share**: $7,496
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,718,967
- **Federal share**: 19.4%
- **State share**: 36.3%
- **Local share**: 44.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,722,889

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $86,962
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 57.4%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,767
- **Foreign-born residents**: 16.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.8 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.89 miles (MCB OIL PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GRU - MURPHREE WTP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.52865 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 0.58% (this school: 0.78%)
- **P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL** — 4.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.78%)
- **THE EINSTEIN SCHOOL INC.** — 4.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.78%)
- **RESILIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL INC** — 5.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.78%)
- **HEALTHY LEARNING ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.78%)

### ela proficiency
- **LITTLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 68.5% (this school: 67%)
- **WILLIAM S. TALBOT ELEM SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 70% (this school: 67%)
- **GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 68.5% (this school: 67%)
- **HIDDEN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 73% (this school: 67%)
- **MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 67%)

### graduation rate
- **P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL** — 4.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 96%)
- **PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY MAGNET AT LOFTEN HIGH SCHOOL** — 7.1 mi away, 100% (this school: 96%)
- **NEWBERRY HIGH SCHOOL** — 13.1 mi away, 97% (this school: 96%)
- **MICANOPY ACADEMY** — 13.6 mi away, 100% (this school: 96%)

### math proficiency
- **LITTLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 70% (this school: 55%)
- **WILLIAM S. TALBOT ELEM SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 71% (this school: 55%)
- **GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 61% (this school: 55%)
- **HIDDEN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 70% (this school: 55%)
- **FORT CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 63% (this school: 55%)

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