# MCLAUGHLIN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001773`
- **School name**: MCLAUGHLIN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE
- **Location**: LAKE WALES, FL 33853
- **Address**: 800 4TH ST S
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–10
- **Coordinates**: 27.88778, -81.58465
- **Phone**: (863)678-4233
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14686206 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaughlin_Middle_School_and_Fine_Arts_Academy
- **Founded**: 1964

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 758
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 31
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 24.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 80.2%

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

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 57.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 48.3% (218 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.1% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.9% (146 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 38.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 27.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 30.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.3% — 82 students
- **English Learners**: 5.3% — 35 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 64 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,985
- **Federal share**: $2,139
- **State + local share**: $8,846
### 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**: $36,555
- **Poverty rate**: 33.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.4%
- **Unemployment**: 7.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $943
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 14.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 26.3 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.94 miles (RIDGE FERTILIZER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKE WALES, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 1.65% (this school: 1.95%)
- **EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH** — 1.3 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 1.95%)
- **ROOSEVELT ACADEMY** — 1.8 mi away, 1.81% (this school: 1.95%)
- **VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY** — 1.9 mi away, 0.96% (this school: 1.95%)
- **BOK ACADEMY** — 4.4 mi away, 0.64% (this school: 1.95%)

### ela proficiency
- **POLK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 50% (this school: 32%)
- **HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 56% (this school: 32%)
- **EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH** — 1.3 mi away, 56% (this school: 32%)
- **SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 34% (this school: 32%)
- **LAKE WALES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 59% (this school: 32%)

### math proficiency
- **POLK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 45% (this school: 24%)
- **HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 70% (this school: 24%)
- **EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH** — 1.3 mi away, 43% (this school: 24%)
- **SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 37% (this school: 24%)
- **LAKE WALES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 44% (this school: 24%)

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