# PUNTA GORDA MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120024000302`
- **School name**: PUNTA GORDA MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: PUNTA GORDA, FL 33950
- **Address**: 1001 EDUCATION AVE
- **District**: CHARLOTTE (LEAID `1200240`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.92892, -82.03430
- **Phone**: (941)575-5485
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7260533 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punta_Gorda_Middle_School
- **Founded**: 1971

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,098
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 57
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 42.6%

## 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 37.5% (374 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.0% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.1% (130 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 116
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 8.8%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 69.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.1% — 237 students
- **English Learners**: 1.9% — 20 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 117 students
- **Autism**: 36 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,543
- **Federal share**: $1,710
- **State + local share**: $9,833
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $14,411,402
- **Federal share**: 15.6%
- **State share**: 16.4%
- **Local share**: 68.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,427,622

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $41,104
- **Poverty rate**: 17.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.2%
- **Unemployment**: 8.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,007
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 26.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 58.5 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 16.75 miles (PROPOSED NORTH PORT FS SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF PUNTA GORDA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 5
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SALLIE JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.12%)
- **BAKER/HEAD START** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.12%)
- **FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.12%)
- **EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 1% (this school: 1.12%)
- **DEEP CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 0.91% (this school: 1.12%)

### ela proficiency
- **CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 55% (this school: 52%)
- **SALLIE JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 52%)
- **FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 81% (this school: 52%)
- **EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 62% (this school: 52%)
- **DEEP CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 69% (this school: 52%)

### math proficiency
- **SALLIE JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 78% (this school: 55%)
- **FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 76% (this school: 55%)
- **EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 65% (this school: 55%)
- **DEEP CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 71% (this school: 55%)
- **PORT CHARLOTTE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.6 mi away, 70% (this school: 55%)

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