# JAMES A. SHANKS MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120060000859`
- **School name**: JAMES A. SHANKS MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: QUINCY, FL 32351
- **Address**: 1400 W KING ST
- **District**: GADSDEN (LEAID `1200600`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 4–8
- **Coordinates**: 30.59158, -84.59382
- **Phone**: (850)875-8737

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 434
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 22
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.8%

## 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 45.4% (303 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.9% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 1.5% (8 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 26.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 68.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 89.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 27.2% — 143 students
- **English Learners**: 9.9% — 52 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 50 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 45 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $0
- **Federal share**: $0
- **State + local share**: $0
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,857,295
- **Federal share**: 34.3%
- **State share**: 46.2%
- **Local share**: 19.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,695,052

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $46,514
- **Poverty rate**: 21.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.1%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $690
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 18.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.0 miles (POST AND LUMBER PRESERVING CO INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.44 miles (PORRO STREET WAREHOUSE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GADSDEN CO REGIONAL W/S
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.71724 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **GEORGE W. MUNROE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 1.79% (this school: 2.85%)
- **BOLD STEP INFANT CARE** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.85%)
- **GADSDEN CENTRAL ACADEMY** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.85%)
- **GADSDEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.85%)
- **HEAD START PROGRAM** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.85%)

### ela proficiency
- **STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 39.5% (this school: 28%)
- **CROSSROAD ACADEMY** — 2.8 mi away, 54% (this school: 28%)
- **GADSDEN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 34% (this school: 28%)
- **GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 8.5 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 28%)
- **WEST GADSDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 8.5 mi away, 29% (this school: 28%)

### math proficiency
- **GEORGE W. MUNROE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 44% (this school: 39%)
- **STEWART STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 41% (this school: 39%)
- **CROSSROAD ACADEMY** — 2.8 mi away, 49% (this school: 39%)
- **GADSDEN ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 8.5 mi away, 90% (this school: 39%)
- **GREENSBORO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.6 mi away, 45% (this school: 39%)

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