# KATHLEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001767`
- **School name**: KATHLEEN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33810
- **Address**: 3627 KATHLEEN PNES
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 28.12532, -82.01948
- **Phone**: (863)853-6040

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 742
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: D
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: D

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 43.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 47.8% (362 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.8% (40 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.9% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.4% (145 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 34.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 26.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 35.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 77.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.1% — 151 students
- **English Learners**: 10.5% — 88 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 61 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,249
- **Federal share**: $1,850
- **State + local share**: $8,398
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,489,537
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 43.8%
- **Local share**: 35.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,033,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $60,504
- **Poverty rate**: 7.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.7%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,700
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.4 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.19 miles (CENTRAL FL PLANNING SIKES CAUSEY TRACT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKELAND, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.88691 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **KATHLEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 4.38% (this school: 4.79%)
- **DR. NE ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 2.14% (this school: 4.79%)
- **R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 2.62% (this school: 4.79%)
- **SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 3.13% (this school: 4.79%)
- **SLEEPY HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 4.23% (this school: 4.79%)

### ela proficiency
- **KATHLEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 41.5% (this school: 31%)
- **DR. NE ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 41% (this school: 31%)
- **R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 55.5% (this school: 31%)
- **SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 45% (this school: 31%)
- **SOCRUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 37% (this school: 31%)

### math proficiency
- **KATHLEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 45% (this school: 35%)
- **DR. NE ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 45% (this school: 35%)
- **R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 40% (this school: 35%)
- **SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 49% (this school: 35%)
- **SOCRUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 56% (this school: 35%)

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