# GAUSE ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/gause-academy-of-leadership-bartow

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001781`
- **School name**: GAUSE ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP
- **Location**: BARTOW, FL 33830
- **Address**: 1395 POLK ST W
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 27.89960, -81.85777
- **Phone**: (863)534-7425

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 97
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 5.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.7%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 34.5% (cohort of 41)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 11

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 90.3% (112 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.5% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 14.6% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 92.7% (76 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 27.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 41.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 26.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 34.1% — 28 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 31 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $41,488
- **Federal share**: $5,217
- **State + local share**: $36,271
### 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**: $58,491
- **Poverty rate**: 27.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 16.7%
- **Unemployment**: 7.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,112
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.2 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.99 miles (FORMER OAKS SCHOOL)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BARTOW, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.88691 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **JAMES E. STEPHENS ACADEMY** — 0.7 mi away, 6.1% (this school: 19.51%)
- **BARTOW ELEMENTARY ACADEMY** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.51%)
- **JEAN O'DELL LEARNING CENTER** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 19.51%)
- **BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 2.18% (this school: 19.51%)
- **FLORAL AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 6.2% (this school: 19.51%)

### graduation rate
- **BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 96% (this school: 34.5%)
- **GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGH** — 5.5 mi away, 98% (this school: 34.5%)
- **MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.2 mi away, 91% (this school: 34.5%)
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.6 mi away, 100% (this school: 34.5%)
- **LAKE REGION HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.7 mi away, 80% (this school: 34.5%)

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