# FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120126001262`
- **School name**: FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: OCALA, FL 34470
- **Address**: 545 NE 17TH AVE
- **District**: MARION (LEAID `1201260`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 29.19276, -82.11468
- **Phone**: (352)671-4725

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 918
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 63.3%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 46.8% (508 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.9% (29 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.1% (51 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 25.3% (251 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 35
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 22.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 24.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 45.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 6.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 69.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.2% — 201 students
- **English Learners**: 5.6% — 56 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 109 students
- **Autism**: 24 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 18 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,104
- **Federal share**: $1,966
- **State + local share**: $8,139
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,138,174
- **Federal share**: 21.4%
- **State share**: 43.3%
- **Local share**: 35.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,970,359

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $47,620
- **Poverty rate**: 23.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.4%
- **Unemployment**: 8.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,061
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 37.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 35.6 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 27
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.29 miles (REEDS PLACE PARCEL 21943 000 01)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OCALA, CITY OF (2 WTPS)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ELC PK ESE SERVICES** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.92%)
- **OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 1.86% (this school: 2.92%)
- **PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC.** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.92%)
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.92%)
- **HILLCREST** — 1.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.92%)

### ela proficiency
- **OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 67% (this school: 41%)
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 41%)
- **WARD-HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 66.5% (this school: 41%)
- **VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 49% (this school: 41%)
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 2.2 mi away, 82.5% (this school: 41%)

### math proficiency
- **OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 75% (this school: 42%)
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 81% (this school: 42%)
- **WARD-HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 75% (this school: 42%)
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 2.2 mi away, 81% (this school: 42%)
- **SOUTH OCALA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 46% (this school: 42%)

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