# PALMETTO MIDDLE SCHOOL

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

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

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039000575`
- **School name**: PALMETTO MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: MIAMI, FL 33156
- **Address**: 7351 SW 128TH ST
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 25.65259, -80.31298
- **Phone**: (305)238-3911

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 715
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 23.4%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 16.2% (160 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.6% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.4% (141 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 54.3%
- **Black/African American**: 3.1%
- **Asian**: 8.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 32.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 26.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.6% — 135 students
- **English Learners**: 2.6% — 19 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 49 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 36 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 30 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,026
- **Federal share**: $1,253
- **State + local share**: $8,772
### 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**: $177,557
- **Poverty rate**: 2.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 65.4%
- **Unemployment**: 4.0%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 31.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.8 miles (AIRCO PLATING CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.05 miles (WYNWOOD WEST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: MDWASA - MAIN SYSTEM
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.37928 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 91% (this school: 74%)
- **TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT PINECREST** — 0.5 mi away, 96% (this school: 74%)
- **VINELAND K-8 CENTER** — 1.3 mi away, 78.5% (this school: 74%)
- **CORAL REEF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 78.5% (this school: 74%)
- **SOUTHWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 79% (this school: 74%)

### math proficiency
- **PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 95% (this school: 72%)
- **TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT PINECREST** — 0.5 mi away, 94% (this school: 72%)
- **VINELAND K-8 CENTER** — 1.3 mi away, 76% (this school: 72%)
- **CORAL REEF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 81% (this school: 72%)
- **SOUTHWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 81% (this school: 72%)

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