# PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY MAGNET AT LOFTEN HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120003000027`
- **School name**: PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY MAGNET AT LOFTEN HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: GAINESVILLE, FL 32641
- **Address**: 3000 E UNIVERSITY AVE
- **District**: ALACHUA (LEAID `1200030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.65557, -82.28692
- **Phone**: (352)955-6839
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6666684 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loften_High_School

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 328
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 17
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 45.4%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 100.0%
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 55)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 93

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.6% (57 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.9% (9 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 27.1% (84 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.8%
- **Asian**: 28.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 52.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 5.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 46.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 16.1% — 50 students
- **English Learners**: 1.0% — 3 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 21 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented
- Career & Technical Education / Dual Enrollment

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $14,574
- **Federal share**: $1,043
- **State + local share**: $13,532
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,718,967
- **Federal share**: 19.4%
- **State share**: 36.3%
- **Local share**: 44.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,722,889

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $27,971
- **Poverty rate**: 24.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.6%
- **Unemployment**: 15.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $978
- **Foreign-born residents**: 0.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 33.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.6 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.20 miles (FORMER RINKER CSX PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GRU - MURPHREE WTP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.52865 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 6.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ALACHUA ESCHOOL (VIRTUAL FRANCHISE)** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.94%)
- **EASTSIDE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 1.87% (this school: 1.94%)
- **ABRAHAM LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0.86% (this school: 1.94%)
- **PACE** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.94%)
- **BOULWARE SPRINGS CHARTER** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.94%)

### ela proficiency
- **P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 86% (this school: 64%)
- **EXPRESSIONS LEARNING ARTS ACADEMY** — 4.9 mi away, 68.5% (this school: 64%)
- **GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 68.5% (this school: 64%)
- **LITTLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 68.5% (this school: 64%)
- **WILLIAM S. TALBOT ELEM SCHOOL** — 7.0 mi away, 70% (this school: 64%)

### math proficiency
- **BOULWARE SPRINGS CHARTER** — 1.8 mi away, 77% (this school: 67%)
- **CARING & SHARING LEARNING SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 79% (this school: 67%)
- **P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 87% (this school: 67%)
- **EXPRESSIONS LEARNING ARTS ACADEMY** — 4.9 mi away, 85% (this school: 67%)
- **LITTLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.2 mi away, 70% (this school: 67%)

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