# GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGH

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001985`
- **School name**: GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGH
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33813
- **Address**: 6000 LAKELAND HIGHLANDS RD
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 27.95748, -81.91926
- **Phone**: (863)648-3566
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5545659 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Jenkins_High_School
- **Founded**: 1993

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,469
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 115
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 47.0%

## 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**: 98.0%
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 470)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 672

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 30.1% (672 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (29 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (24 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 14.3% (360 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 26.1%
- **Black/African American**: 3.2%
- **Asian**: 15.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 51.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.8% — 297 students
- **English Learners**: 2.1% — 54 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 109 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 50 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 23 students
- **Autism**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,106
- **Federal share**: $956
- **State + local share**: $7,150
### 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**: $85,677
- **Poverty rate**: 5.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 40.0%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,717
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.7 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.08 miles (MUL 7 UNDEVELOPED CITY PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKELAND, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.88691 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HIGHLAND CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 0.72% (this school: 1.15%)
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.15%)
- **POLK STATE LAKELAND GATEWAY TO COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHO** — 2.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.15%)
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 3.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.15%)
- **MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 1.14% (this school: 1.15%)

### ela proficiency
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 69% (this school: 60%)
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 60%)
- **HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 60%)
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 60%)
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 3.8 mi away, 81% (this school: 60%)

### graduation rate
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 98%)
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY** — 7.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 98%)
- **CHAIN OF LAKES COLLEGIATE HIGH** — 13.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 98%)

### math proficiency
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 79% (this school: 35%)
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 65% (this school: 35%)
- **HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 72% (this school: 35%)
- **HIGHLAND CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 69% (this school: 35%)
- **LAKELAND HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 58% (this school: 35%)

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