# KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001766`
- **School name**: KATHLEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33815
- **Address**: 1100 RED DEVIL WAY
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 28.05737, -81.99610
- **Phone**: (863)499-2655
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6376747 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Senior_High_School
- **Founded**: 1879

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,861
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 76
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.8%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 79.0%
- **2021**: 89.0% (cohort of 409)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 455

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 75.4% (1,454 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.4% (67 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 13.7% (268 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 38.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 25.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 33.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 67.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.3% — 298 students
- **English Learners**: 5.5% — 107 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 144 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 41 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 33 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 20 students
- **Autism**: 10 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,975
- **Federal share**: $1,448
- **State + local share**: $8,526
### 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**: $40,000
- **Poverty rate**: 34.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.5%
- **Unemployment**: 7.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,028
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.6 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 30
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.39 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**: 2.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.43%)
- **WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING** — 1.1 mi away, 0.38% (this school: 3.43%)
- **LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY** — 1.9 mi away, 0.38% (this school: 3.43%)
- **POLK VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.43%)
- **POLK FULL TIME ESCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 1.98% (this school: 3.43%)

### ela proficiency
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY** — 0.9 mi away, 74% (this school: 46%)
- **WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING** — 1.1 mi away, 72% (this school: 46%)
- **LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY** — 1.9 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 46%)
- **MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY** — 2.0 mi away, 87% (this school: 46%)
- **ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS** — 2.2 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 46%)

### graduation rate
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY** — 0.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 79%)
- **LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 91% (this school: 79%)
- **LAKE GIBSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 93% (this school: 79%)
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 79%)
- **GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGH** — 8.3 mi away, 98% (this school: 79%)

### math proficiency
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY** — 0.9 mi away, 80% (this school: 24%)
- **WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING** — 1.1 mi away, 73% (this school: 24%)
- **JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 49% (this school: 24%)
- **LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY** — 1.9 mi away, 85% (this school: 24%)
- **GRIFFIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 50% (this school: 24%)

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