# LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039004338`
- **School name**: LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: HIALEAH, FL 33015
- **Address**: 8190 NW 197TH ST
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 25.95149, -80.33355
- **Phone**: (305)816-9101

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 514
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 29
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.5%

## 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 19.6% (136 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.5% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.1% (86 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 80.0%
- **Black/African American**: 1.6%
- **Asian**: 16.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.3% — 104 students
- **English Learners**: 13.9% — 79 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 65 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,311
- **Federal share**: $2,177
- **State + local share**: $11,133
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,452,063
- **Federal share**: 19.5%
- **State share**: 23.3%
- **Local share**: 57.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,807,498

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $82,841
- **Poverty rate**: 11.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.8%
- **Unemployment**: 2.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,669
- **Foreign-born residents**: 56.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.5 miles (PEPPER STEEL ALLOYS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 16
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.55 miles (MIAMI GARDENS ISD VACANT LOT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HIALEAH, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.0125 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CORAL COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS)** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY MIDDLE (MIRAMAR CAMPUS)** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)
- **MATER GARDENS ACADEMY** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.53%)

### ela proficiency
- **SPANISH LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 65% (this school: 55%)
- **CORAL COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 72% (this school: 55%)
- **PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 66.5% (this school: 55%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS)** — 1.4 mi away, 86% (this school: 55%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY MIDDLE (MIRAMAR CAMPUS)** — 1.4 mi away, 86% (this school: 55%)

### math proficiency
- **SPANISH LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 74% (this school: 48%)
- **CORAL COVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 75% (this school: 48%)
- **PALM SPRINGS NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 75% (this school: 48%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY ELEMENTARY (MIRAMAR CAMPUS)** — 1.4 mi away, 89% (this school: 48%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY MIDDLE (MIRAMAR CAMPUS)** — 1.4 mi away, 85% (this school: 48%)

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