# LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE ACADEMY

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159003015`
- **School name**: LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE ACADEMY
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33801
- **Address**: 400 FLORIDA AVE N
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 28.04824, -81.95767
- **Phone**: (863)499-2742

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 704
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 34
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 43.8%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.3% (28 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 2.4% (16 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 20.6%
- **Black/African American**: 7.8%
- **Asian**: 20.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 49.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 40.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.3% — 29 students
- **English Learners**: 2.1% — 14 students

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

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,315
- **Federal share**: $1,253
- **State + local share**: $8,062
### 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**: $40,121
- **Poverty rate**: 38.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.9%
- **Unemployment**: 17.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,084
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.4 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 34
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.14 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**: 1.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY CENTRAL** — 0.1 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 74%)
- **LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY** — 1.1 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 74%)
- **LAKELAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL HOUSE** — 1.2 mi away, 84% (this school: 74%)
- **MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 87% (this school: 74%)
- **CLEVELAND COURT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 74%)

### math proficiency
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY CENTRAL** — 0.1 mi away, 87% (this school: 67%)
- **LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY** — 1.1 mi away, 85% (this school: 67%)
- **LAKELAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL HOUSE** — 1.2 mi away, 89% (this school: 67%)
- **MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 90% (this school: 67%)
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY** — 1.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 67%)

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