# LAKE PLACID MIDDLE SCHOOL

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120084002651`
- **School name**: LAKE PLACID MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKE PLACID, FL 33852
- **Address**: 201 S TANGERINE AVE
- **District**: HIGHLANDS (LEAID `1200840`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.29601, -81.37278
- **Phone**: (863)699-5030

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 507
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.5%

## 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 35.1% (234 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.5% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 18.7% (112 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 128
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 39.3%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 17.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 39.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 80.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.2% — 127 students
- **English Learners**: 2.3% — 14 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 37 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,031
- **Federal share**: $2,911
- **State + local share**: $9,119
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,516,332
- **Federal share**: 29.7%
- **State share**: 39.8%
- **Local share**: 30.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,457,455

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $57,353
- **Poverty rate**: 28.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.1%
- **Unemployment**: 7.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $923
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 32.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 56.1 miles (FLORIDA STEEL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 25.03 miles (CANE FIELDS SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKE PLACID, TOWN OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LAKE PLACID HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 1.51%)
- **THE ACADEMY AT YOUTH CARE LANE** — 13.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.51%)
- **SEBRING HIGH SCHOOL** — 13.7 mi away, 0.79% (this school: 1.51%)
- **NON-ENROLLED PK EXCEPTIONAL ED PROGRAM** — 14.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.51%)

### ela proficiency
- **LAKE PLACID ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 68% (this school: 52%)
- **LAKE COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 63% (this school: 52%)
- **CRACKER TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 9.8 mi away, 62.5% (this school: 52%)
- **HIGHLANDS VIRTUAL SCHOOL** — 14.5 mi away, 64% (this school: 52%)

### math proficiency
- **LAKE PLACID ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 81% (this school: 49%)
- **LAKE COUNTRY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 66% (this school: 49%)
- **CRACKER TRAIL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 9.8 mi away, 67% (this school: 49%)
- **FRED WILD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 13.3 mi away, 60% (this school: 49%)
- **SEBRING MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 14.5 mi away, 61% (this school: 49%)

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