# INDEPENDENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL

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

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

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120150003897`
- **School name**: INDEPENDENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: JUPITER, FL 33458
- **Address**: 4001 GREENWAY DR
- **District**: PALM BEACH (LEAID `1201500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.89796, -80.12274
- **Phone**: (561)799-7500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,236
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 65
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 20.1%

## 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 6.4% (83 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 4.4% (52 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 23.4%
- **Black/African American**: 3.9%
- **Asian**: 4.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 64.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 23.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.4% — 122 students
- **English Learners**: 5.3% — 62 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 80 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 41 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,478
- **Federal share**: $996
- **State + local share**: $10,481
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,532,108
- **Federal share**: 15.3%
- **State share**: 21.7%
- **Local share**: 63.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,014,132

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $130,742
- **Poverty rate**: 5.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 60.6%
- **Unemployment**: 1.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,786
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.7 miles (TRANS CIRCUITS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 4
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.84 miles (FORMER SEACOAST UTILITY WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: JUPITER PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM,TOWN OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.39436 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.43%)
- **JUPITER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.43%)
- **BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.43%)
- **WILLIAM T. DWYER HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0.39% (this school: 0.43%)
- **FRANKLIN ACADEMY- PALM BEACH GARDENS** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.43%)

### ela proficiency
- **BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 86% (this school: 78%)
- **MARSH POINTE ELEMENTARY** — 2.4 mi away, 81.5% (this school: 78%)
- **TIMBER TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 78%)
- **PALM BEACH VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 6.1 mi away, 94% (this school: 78%)
- **JUPITER FARMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 84.5% (this school: 78%)

### math proficiency
- **BEACON COVE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 89% (this school: 79%)
- **MARSH POINTE ELEMENTARY** — 2.4 mi away, 90% (this school: 79%)
- **TIMBER TRACE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 91% (this school: 79%)
- **PALM BEACH GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 79%)
- **PALM BEACH VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 6.1 mi away, 88% (this school: 79%)

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

---
*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.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*