# LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001792`
- **School name**: LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33809
- **Address**: 6901 SOCRUM LOOP RD N
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 28.12927, -81.95452
- **Phone**: (863)853-6151

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,149
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.1%

## 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 30.0% (347 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.0% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.6% (29 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.8% (255 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 30.1%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 20.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 44.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 65.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.5% — 184 students
- **English Learners**: 4.2% — 47 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 115 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 47 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,794
- **Federal share**: $2,034
- **State + local share**: $7,760
### 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**: $74,650
- **Poverty rate**: 6.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.4%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,328
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.4 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.55 miles (LAKELAND PROPERTY)

### 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**: 7.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LAKE GIBSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 1.86% (this school: 2.95%)
- **WENDELL WATSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0.84% (this school: 2.95%)
- **DR. NE ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 2.14% (this school: 2.95%)
- **R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 2.62% (this school: 2.95%)
- **ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY** — 4.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.95%)

### ela proficiency
- **LAKE GIBSON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 44% (this school: 40%)
- **EDGAR L. PADGETT ELEMENTARY** — 0.5 mi away, 43% (this school: 40%)
- **WENDELL WATSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 44.5% (this school: 40%)
- **DR. NE ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 41% (this school: 40%)
- **R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 55.5% (this school: 40%)

### math proficiency
- **EDGAR L. PADGETT ELEMENTARY** — 0.5 mi away, 52% (this school: 40%)
- **WENDELL WATSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 47% (this school: 40%)
- **DR. NE ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 45% (this school: 40%)
- **SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.5 mi away, 49% (this school: 40%)
- **KATHLEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 45% (this school: 40%)

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