# HARDEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120075000877`
- **School name**: HARDEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: WAUCHULA, FL 33873
- **Address**: 830 ALTMAN RD
- **District**: HARDEE (LEAID `1200750`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 27.52856, -81.83463
- **Phone**: (863)773-3181
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14685885 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardee_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,347
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 60
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 70.9%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 73.0%
- **2021**: 90.0% (cohort of 330)
- **2019**: 92.0% (cohort of 341)
- **2018**: 83.0% (cohort of 379)
- **2017**: 81.0% (cohort of 353)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 445

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 36.3% (497 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.6% (288 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 22
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 64.8%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 5.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 26.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.3% — 191 students
- **English Learners**: 4.2% — 56 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 109 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 24 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,664
- **Federal share**: $2,266
- **State + local share**: $8,397
### 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**: $51,705
- **Poverty rate**: 32.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.2%
- **Unemployment**: 9.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $631
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 35.9 miles (SYDNEY MINE SLUDGE PONDS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.68 miles (SCOTTY S HARDWARE)

### 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
- **HARDEE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.32%)

### ela proficiency
- **WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 72% (this school: 51%)
- **HARDEE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 2.4 mi away, 56% (this school: 51%)
- **ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 60% (this school: 51%)

### graduation rate
- **HARDEE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 2.4 mi away, 83% (this school: 73%)

### math proficiency
- **WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 69% (this school: 38%)
- **NORTH WAUCHULA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 48% (this school: 38%)
- **ZOLFO SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 54% (this school: 38%)
- **HARDEE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 51% (this school: 38%)
- **HILLTOP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 48% (this school: 38%)

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