# LAKELAND HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001793`
- **School name**: LAKELAND HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33813
- **Address**: 740 LAKE MIRIAM DR
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.97579, -81.95124
- **Phone**: (863)648-3500

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,118
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 61
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.4%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.9% (222 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.8% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (21 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 5.6% (70 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 23.1%
- **Black/African American**: 3.0%
- **Asian**: 15.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 54.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 49.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.4% — 156 students
- **English Learners**: 1.7% — 21 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 98 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 39 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,445
- **Federal share**: $1,231
- **State + local share**: $7,214
### 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**: $82,857
- **Poverty rate**: 5.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,332
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.7 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 23
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.94 miles (LAKELAND SOUTHERN SQUARE)

### 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**: 3.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 1.67% (this school: 1.75%)
- **GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGH** — 2.3 mi away, 1.15% (this school: 1.75%)
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 3.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.75%)
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.75%)
- **POLK STATE LAKELAND GATEWAY TO COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHO** — 3.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.75%)

### ela proficiency
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 60%)
- **HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 70.5% (this school: 60%)
- **CLEVELAND COURT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 60%)
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 69% (this school: 60%)
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 3.4 mi away, 81% (this school: 60%)

### math proficiency
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 65% (this school: 58%)
- **HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 72% (this school: 58%)
- **CLEVELAND COURT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 80% (this school: 58%)
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 79% (this school: 58%)
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 3.4 mi away, 84% (this school: 58%)

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