# MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001785`
- **School name**: MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33815
- **Address**: 1810 PARKER ST W
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 28.04984, -81.98425
- **Phone**: (863)499-2818
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6801744 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKeel_Academy_of_Technology
- **Founded**: 1987

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,750
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 74
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 36.2%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 100.0%
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 217)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 322

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (15 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.1%
- **Black/African American**: 3.4%
- **Asian**: 8.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 66.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 36.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 4.0% — 68 students
- **English Learners**: 0.3% — 6 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,969
- **Federal share**: $1,929
- **State + local share**: $7,039
### 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**: $33,065
- **Poverty rate**: 21.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 7.9%
- **Unemployment**: 10.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $913
- **Foreign-born residents**: 12.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.8 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 32
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.51 miles (CENTRAL FL PLANNING SIKES CAUSEY TRACT)

### 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
- **MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY** — 1.2 mi away, 87% (this school: 74%)
- **LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 74%)
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY CENTRAL** — 1.7 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 74%)
- **LAKELAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL HOUSE** — 2.7 mi away, 84% (this school: 74%)
- **CLEVELAND COURT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 74%)

### math proficiency
- **MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY** — 1.2 mi away, 90% (this school: 80%)
- **LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 85% (this school: 80%)
- **MCKEEL ACADEMY CENTRAL** — 1.7 mi away, 87% (this school: 80%)
- **LAKELAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL HOUSE** — 2.7 mi away, 89% (this school: 80%)
- **SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY** — 5.0 mi away, 84% (this school: 80%)

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