# JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120156001978`
- **School name**: JOSEPH L. CARWISE MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALM HARBOR, FL 34684
- **Address**: 3301 BENTLEY DR
- **District**: PINELLAS (LEAID `1201560`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 28.08861, -82.72634
- **Phone**: (727)724-1442

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 859
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 49
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 31.1%

## 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 18.0% (223 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.4% (4 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.9% (181 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.4%
- **Black/African American**: 3.0%
- **Asian**: 4.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 68.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 5.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 34.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.1% — 164 students
- **English Learners**: 6.1% — 58 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 49 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 31 students
- **Autism**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,482
- **Federal share**: $767
- **State + local share**: $9,715
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,667,582
- **Federal share**: 18.3%
- **State share**: 25.1%
- **Local share**: 56.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,792,259

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,467
- **Poverty rate**: 6.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 34.1%
- **Unemployment**: 1.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,488
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.2 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 8
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.67 miles (37134 US HIGHWAY 19 N)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKE TARPON MOBILE HOME VILLAG
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-02-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.10203 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HIGHLAND LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)
- **PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH** — 2.2 mi away, 0.16% (this school: 0.42%)
- **ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)
- **ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL  NORTH PINELLAS** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)
- **CYPRESS WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.42%)

### ela proficiency
- **SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 74% (this school: 73%)
- **LAKE ST. GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 75% (this school: 73%)
- **PALM HARBOR UNIVERSITY HIGH** — 2.2 mi away, 79% (this school: 73%)
- **ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY** — 2.4 mi away, 89.5% (this school: 73%)
- **ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL  NORTH PINELLAS** — 2.5 mi away, 94% (this school: 73%)

### math proficiency
- **SUTHERLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 82% (this school: 76%)
- **LAKE ST. GEORGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 80% (this school: 76%)
- **ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY** — 2.4 mi away, 89% (this school: 76%)
- **ST. PETERSBURG COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL  NORTH PINELLAS** — 2.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 76%)
- **CYPRESS WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 87% (this school: 76%)

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