# FORT MEADE MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001743`
- **School name**: FORT MEADE MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: FORT MEADE, FL 33841
- **Address**: 700 EDGEWOOD DR N
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 27.76077, -81.78301
- **Phone**: (863)285-1180
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5471663 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Meade_Middle-Senior_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 731
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.6%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.0%
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 109)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 78

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 25.8% (195 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.3% (110 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 48.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 13.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 35.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 75.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.1% — 132 students
- **English Learners**: 3.2% — 25 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 65 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,705
- **Federal share**: $2,117
- **State + local share**: $10,589
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,489,537
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 43.8%
- **Local share**: 35.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,033,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $42,652
- **Poverty rate**: 25.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.4%
- **Unemployment**: 9.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,054
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 22.7 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.56 miles (FRTM 004 PROPOSED RV PARK)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF FORT MEADE
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-12-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **POLK HALFWAY HOUSE** — 8.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.43%)
- **POLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S CENTRAL CENTER** — 8.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.43%)
- **HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND** — 8.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.43%)
- **TRANSITION SCHOOL** — 9.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.43%)
- **JEAN O'DELL LEARNING CENTER** — 9.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.43%)

### ela proficiency
- **LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 49.5% (this school: 46%)
- **ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.8 mi away, 63.5% (this school: 46%)
- **BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.9 mi away, 49.5% (this school: 46%)
- **BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 9.3 mi away, 54% (this school: 46%)
- **UNION ACADEMY** — 9.4 mi away, 74% (this school: 46%)

### graduation rate
- **BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 9.3 mi away, 96% (this school: 91%)

### math proficiency
- **ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.8 mi away, 63% (this school: 52%)
- **BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.9 mi away, 58% (this school: 52%)
- **UNION ACADEMY** — 9.4 mi away, 67% (this school: 52%)
- **BARTOW ELEMENTARY ACADEMY** — 9.8 mi away, 67% (this school: 52%)
- **JAMES E. STEPHENS ACADEMY** — 11.2 mi away, 62% (this school: 52%)

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