# MULBERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mulberry-middle-school-mulberry/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/mulberry-middle-school-mulberry

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001765`
- **School name**: MULBERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: MULBERRY, FL 33860
- **Address**: 500 DR MLK JR AVE SE
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.89086, -81.96481
- **Phone**: (863)701-1066

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,058
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 46
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 74.1%

## 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 33.0% (373 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.6% (42 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.4% (181 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 48.4%
- **Black/African American**: 0.5%
- **Asian**: 9.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 38.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 72.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.5% — 194 students
- **English Learners**: 10.5% — 123 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 122 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 38 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,556
- **Federal share**: $1,662
- **State + local share**: $6,894
### 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**: $50,770
- **Poverty rate**: 26.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,114
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.3 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.31 miles (FORMER MULBERRY CONSTRUCTION SITE MUL 3 4 5 13 21)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MULBERRY, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **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**: 9.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.7 mi away, 1.14% (this school: 3.57%)
- **JAMES W. SIKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 2% (this school: 3.57%)
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 1.67% (this school: 3.57%)
- **MEDULLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 2.19% (this school: 3.57%)
- **GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGH** — 5.4 mi away, 1.15% (this school: 3.57%)

### ela proficiency
- **JAMES W. SIKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 65% (this school: 46%)
- **WILLOW OAK SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 47.5% (this school: 46%)
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 65.5% (this school: 46%)
- **MEDULLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.3 mi away, 52.5% (this school: 46%)
- **GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGH** — 5.4 mi away, 60% (this school: 46%)

### math proficiency
- **JAMES W. SIKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 57% (this school: 46%)
- **WILLOW OAK SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 54% (this school: 46%)
- **SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 65% (this school: 46%)
- **VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 79% (this school: 46%)
- **R. BRUCE WAGNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 64% (this school: 46%)

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