# INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/independence-classical-academy-fort-pierce

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120177008887`
- **School name**: INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY
- **Location**: FORT PIERCE, FL 34981
- **Address**: 2902 S. JENKINS ROAD
- **District**: ST. LUCIE (LEAID `1201770`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 27.41146, -80.38075
- **Phone**: (772)837-9300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 557
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 12.2%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.9% (68 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 11.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 3.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 80.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 50.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.7% — 22 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,643
- **Federal share**: $480
- **State + local share**: $8,163
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,866,161
- **Federal share**: 17.6%
- **State share**: 35.5%
- **Local share**: 46.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,489,086

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,069
- **Poverty rate**: 10.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,348
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.4 miles (PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP VERO BEACH WATER SEWER DEPARTMENT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 19
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.78 miles (HEATHCOTE BOTANICAL GARDENS EXPANSION AREA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FT. PIERCE UTILITIES AUTHORITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-08-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.31284 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **FAIRLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 76% (this school: 58.5%)
- **LINCOLN PARK ACADEMY** — 4.0 mi away, 68% (this school: 58.5%)
- **PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 58.5%)
- **WEST GATE K-8 SCHOOL** — 5.1 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 58.5%)
- **SOMERSET COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 5.3 mi away, 70% (this school: 58.5%)

### math proficiency
- **SAMUEL S. GAINES ACADEMY OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES** — 0.9 mi away, 61% (this school: 56%)
- **FAIRLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 84% (this school: 56%)
- **LAWNWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 62% (this school: 56%)
- **CHESTER A. MOORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.6 mi away, 61% (this school: 56%)
- **CREATIVE ARTS ACADEMY OF ST. LUCIE** — 3.6 mi away, 63% (this school: 56%)

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