# HOWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/howard-middle-school-ocala/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/howard-middle-school-ocala

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120126001251`
- **School name**: HOWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: OCALA, FL 34475
- **Address**: 1655 NW 10TH ST
- **District**: MARION (LEAID `1201260`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 29.19869, -82.15348
- **Phone**: (352)671-7225

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 917
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 49
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.7%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 39.1% (418 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.5% (31 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 5.5% (49 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.1% (161 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 95
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 20.7%
- **Black/African American**: 5.7%
- **Asian**: 37.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 32.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 60.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.7% — 149 students
- **English Learners**: 5.3% — 47 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 63 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,091
- **Federal share**: $1,830
- **State + local share**: $9,261
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,138,174
- **Federal share**: 21.4%
- **State share**: 43.3%
- **Local share**: 35.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,970,359

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $38,161
- **Poverty rate**: 31.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 12.2%
- **Unemployment**: 10.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $857
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 32.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 34.5 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 34
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.14 miles (MUSIC STATION PAWN SHOP FORMER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OCALA, CITY OF (2 WTPS)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.48%)
- **PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC.** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.48%)
- **DR N H JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0.88% (this school: 3.48%)
- **MARION REG. JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.48%)
- **MCSO ADULTS** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.48%)

### ela proficiency
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 0.6 mi away, 82.5% (this school: 54%)
- **DR N H JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 54%)
- **OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 67% (this school: 54%)
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 54%)
- **WARD-HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 66.5% (this school: 54%)

### math proficiency
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 0.6 mi away, 81% (this school: 58%)
- **DR N H JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 82% (this school: 58%)
- **OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 75% (this school: 58%)
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 81% (this school: 58%)
- **WARD-HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.3 mi away, 75% (this school: 58%)

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