# HARDEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120075000878`
- **School name**: HARDEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: WAUCHULA, FL 33873
- **Address**: 2401 US HIGHWAY 17 N
- **District**: HARDEE (LEAID `1200750`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 6–12
- **Coordinates**: 27.58576, -81.82345
- **Phone**: (863)773-3147

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 958
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 55
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.8%

## 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
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 4)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 43.3% (513 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.7% (40 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.8% (216 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 65.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.6%
- **Asian**: 5.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 26.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 69.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.4% — 190 students
- **English Learners**: 2.5% — 27 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 102 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 33 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,768
- **Federal share**: $1,889
- **State + local share**: $8,879
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $11,916,818
- **Federal share**: 25.8%
- **State share**: 50.7%
- **Local share**: 23.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,080,550

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $53,594
- **Poverty rate**: 21.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.7%
- **Unemployment**: 6.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $914
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 32.8 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.29 miles (LINDER PROPERTY)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 3.12% (this school: 3.67%)
- **HARDEE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.67%)
- **HARDEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 2.32% (this school: 3.67%)
- **ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 3.27% (this school: 3.67%)
- **LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 11.0 mi away, 2.39% (this school: 3.67%)

### ela proficiency
- **HARDEE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 2.0 mi away, 56% (this school: 50%)
- **WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 72% (this school: 50%)
- **HARDEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 51% (this school: 50%)
- **ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 60% (this school: 50%)

### math proficiency
- **WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 69% (this school: 51%)
- **BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 58% (this school: 51%)
- **ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 54% (this school: 51%)
- **FORT MEADE MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 12.3 mi away, 52% (this school: 51%)

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