# JAMES S. RICKARDS MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120018002802`
- **School name**: JAMES S. RICKARDS MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: OAKLAND PARK, FL 33334
- **Address**: 6000 NE 9TH AVE
- **District**: BROWARD (LEAID `1200180`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.20230, -80.13356
- **Phone**: (754)322-4400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 770
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.1%

## 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 31.8% (302 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.2% (131 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 54.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 28.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 13.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 58.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 26.1% — 199 students
- **English Learners**: 15.2% — 116 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 97 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,896
- **Federal share**: $2,439
- **State + local share**: $9,457
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,881,634
- **Federal share**: 19.2%
- **State share**: 31.2%
- **Local share**: 49.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,878,709

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,500
- **Poverty rate**: 20.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.3%
- **Unemployment**: 8.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,556
- **Foreign-born residents**: 49.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 31.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.2 miles (HOLLINGSWORTH SOLDERLESS TERMINAL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 57
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.68 miles (FORMER J S GARAGE SITE AKA SALLEY PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OAKLAND PARK CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.8067 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0.57% (this school: 0.79%)
- **FLORANADA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0.41% (this school: 0.79%)
- **INNOVATION CHARTER SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0.68% (this school: 0.79%)
- **MCNAB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 0.79%)
- **BROWARD CHILDREN'S CENTER NORTH** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.79%)

### ela proficiency
- **LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 70% (this school: 50%)
- **NORTH ANDREWS GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 56% (this school: 50%)
- **FLORANADA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 74% (this school: 50%)
- **MCNAB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 50%)
- **OAKLAND PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 52.5% (this school: 50%)

### math proficiency
- **LAKEWOOD RANCH PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 76% (this school: 52%)
- **NORTH ANDREWS GARDENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 58% (this school: 52%)
- **FLORANADA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 84% (this school: 52%)
- **CYPRESS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 57% (this school: 52%)
- **MCNAB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 73% (this school: 52%)

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