# FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120201402974`
- **School name**: FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL
- **Location**: TALLAHASSEE, FL 32307
- **Address**: 400 W ORANGE AVE
- **District**: FAMU LAB SCH (LEAID `1202014`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 30.41321, -84.28817
- **Phone**: (850)412-5866
- **Wikidata QID**: Q30588205 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_A%26M_University_Developmental_Research_School
- **Founded**: 1877

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 519
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 100.0%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.0%
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 50)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 77

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.4% (147 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 10.9% (62 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 3.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 95.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 100.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.2% — 24 students
- **English Learners**: 1.6% — 9 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students

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

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,882
- **Federal share**: $377
- **State + local share**: $9,505
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $-2
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $-2

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $26,750
- **Poverty rate**: 50.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.5%
- **Unemployment**: 11.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,054
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 52.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.1 miles (POST AND LUMBER PRESERVING CO INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.56 miles (TOWNE SOUTH SHOPPING CENTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TALLAHASSEE, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.71724 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 40.5%)
- **PINEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 43% (this school: 40.5%)
- **FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 50% (this school: 40.5%)
- **JAMES RICKARDS HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 41% (this school: 40.5%)
- **SAIL** — 2.3 mi away, 75% (this school: 40.5%)

### graduation rate
- **FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 99% (this school: 97%)
- **LAWTON CHILES HIGH SCHOOL** — 11.8 mi away, 99% (this school: 97%)

### math proficiency
- **BOND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 69% (this school: 45%)
- **PINEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 57% (this school: 45%)
- **FAIRVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 51% (this school: 45%)
- **FRANK HARTSFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 48% (this school: 45%)
- **SAIL** — 2.3 mi away, 50% (this school: 45%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/florida-a-m-university-developmental-research-school-tallahassee
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/florida-a-m-university-developmental-research-school-tallahassee/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/florida-a-m-university-developmental-research-school-tallahassee/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/florida-a-m-university-developmental-research-school-tallahassee/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/florida-a-m-university-developmental-research-school-tallahassee/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/florida-a-m-university-developmental-research-school-tallahassee/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/florida-a-m-university-developmental-research-school-tallahassee/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/florida-a-m-university-developmental-research-school-tallahassee/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/florida-a-m-university-developmental-research-school-tallahassee/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/florida-a-m-university-developmental-research-school-tallahassee/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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