# PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039000577`
- **School name**: PONCE DE LEON MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: CORAL GABLES, FL 33146
- **Address**: 5801 AUGUSTO ST
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 25.71583, -80.27199
- **Phone**: (305)661-1611

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 778
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 49.6%

## 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 28.3% (290 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.5% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.4% (169 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 83.6%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 10.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 5.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 55.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 19.2% — 145 students
- **English Learners**: 12.1% — 91 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 55 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 22 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $13,136
- **Federal share**: $2,404
- **State + local share**: $10,732
### 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**: $84,583
- **Poverty rate**: 12.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 82.6%
- **Unemployment**: 1.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,125
- **Foreign-born residents**: 29.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.9 miles (AIRCO PLATING CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.33 miles (WYNWOOD WEST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: REX UTILITIES INC/REDAVO
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.37928 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.46%)
- **SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0.5% (this school: 1.46%)
- **INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.46%)
- **GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.46%)
- **GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.46%)

### ela proficiency
- **HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 97.5% (this school: 59%)
- **SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 94.5% (this school: 59%)
- **INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 88% (this school: 59%)
- **GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 94% (this school: 59%)
- **GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 90% (this school: 59%)

### math proficiency
- **HENRY S. WEST LABORATORY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 93% (this school: 58%)
- **SUNSET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 96% (this school: 58%)
- **INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PREPARATORY ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 92% (this school: 58%)
- **GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 95% (this school: 58%)
- **GEORGE W. CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 96% (this school: 58%)

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