# MANDARIN LAKES K-8 ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039007377`
- **School name**: MANDARIN LAKES K-8 ACADEMY
- **Location**: HOMESTEAD, FL 33032
- **Address**: 12225 SW 280TH ST
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 25.50758, -80.39057
- **Phone**: (305)257-0377

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 643
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 72.0%

## 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 69.4% (514 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 8.6% (64 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 13.9% (104 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 38.3% (286 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 56.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.1%
- **Asian**: 39.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 2.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 74.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.2% — 136 students
- **English Learners**: 20.6% — 154 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 36 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 29 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 19 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,138
- **Federal share**: $3,194
- **State + local share**: $9,943
### 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**: $9,960
- **Poverty rate**: 82.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.1%
- **Unemployment**: 38.7%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 78.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.3 miles (HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 1
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.54 miles (PARKING LOT AND EASEMENT 225 227 NE 79 ST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HOMESTEAD, 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**: 7.29318 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **TITLE I MIGRANT EDUCATION PROGRAM** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.57%)
- **CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER SOUTH** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.57%)
- **AIR BASE K-8 CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.57%)
- **ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL OF MATH AND SCIENCE** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 8.57%)
- **DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 1.86% (this school: 8.57%)

### ela proficiency
- **AIR BASE K-8 CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION** — 0.8 mi away, 88% (this school: 40.5%)
- **ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL OF MATH AND SCIENCE** — 1.1 mi away, 47% (this school: 40.5%)
- **ACADEMIR MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATH AND SCIENCE** — 1.1 mi away, 53% (this school: 40.5%)
- **DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 49.5% (this school: 40.5%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 79% (this school: 40.5%)

### math proficiency
- **AIR BASE K-8 CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION** — 0.8 mi away, 84% (this school: 48%)
- **ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL OF MATH AND SCIENCE** — 1.1 mi away, 70% (this school: 48%)
- **ACADEMIR MIDDLE SCHOOL OF MATH AND SCIENCE** — 1.1 mi away, 59% (this school: 48%)
- **DR. WILLIAM A. CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 65% (this school: 48%)
- **SOMERSET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 72% (this school: 48%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mandarin-lakes-k-8-academy-homestead
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mandarin-lakes-k-8-academy-homestead/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mandarin-lakes-k-8-academy-homestead/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mandarin-lakes-k-8-academy-homestead/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mandarin-lakes-k-8-academy-homestead/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mandarin-lakes-k-8-academy-homestead/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mandarin-lakes-k-8-academy-homestead/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mandarin-lakes-k-8-academy-homestead/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mandarin-lakes-k-8-academy-homestead/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mandarin-lakes-k-8-academy-homestead/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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