# HERON CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/heron-creek-middle-school-north-port

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120168003935`
- **School name**: HERON CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: NORTH PORT, FL 34291
- **Address**: 6501 W PRICE BLVD
- **District**: SARASOTA (LEAID `1201680`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.06912, -82.22691
- **Phone**: (941)480-3371

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 945
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 64
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 68.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: A

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.1% (195 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.2% (111 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 46
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.9%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 8.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 61.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 8.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 72.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.6% — 187 students
- **English Learners**: 4.4% — 40 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 97 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,588
- **Federal share**: $1,571
- **State + local share**: $13,018
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,843,608
- **Federal share**: 11.3%
- **State share**: 11.5%
- **Local share**: 77.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,691,726

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $49,792
- **Poverty rate**: 9.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 27.5%
- **Unemployment**: 4.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,060
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 44.8 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.45 miles (PROPOSED NORTH PORT FS SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: NORTH PORT UTILITIES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-09-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CRANBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0.51% (this school: 0.88%)
- **LAMARQUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 0.56% (this school: 0.88%)
- **IMAGINE SCHOOL AT NORTH PORT** — 4.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.88%)
- **TOLEDO BLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.88%)
- **CHARLOTTE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 6.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.88%)

### ela proficiency
- **CRANBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 65% (this school: 63%)
- **IMAGINE SCHOOL AT NORTH PORT** — 4.6 mi away, 67% (this school: 63%)
- **TOLEDO BLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.9 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 63%)
- **COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY AT WELLEN PARK** — 5.7 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 63%)
- **STATE COLLEGE OF FLA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL-VENICE** — 5.9 mi away, 77% (this school: 63%)

### math proficiency
- **CRANBERRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 73% (this school: 70%)
- **TOLEDO BLADE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 70%)
- **STATE COLLEGE OF FLA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL-VENICE** — 5.9 mi away, 84% (this school: 70%)
- **VENICE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 7.8 mi away, 72% (this school: 70%)
- **TAYLOR RANCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.3 mi away, 82% (this school: 70%)

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