# SAMUEL S. GAINES ACADEMY OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120177006816`
- **School name**: SAMUEL S. GAINES ACADEMY OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
- **Location**: FORT PIERCE, FL 34947
- **Address**: 2250 S JENKINS RD
- **District**: ST. LUCIE (LEAID `1201770`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 27.42450, -80.38152
- **Phone**: (772)462-8888

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 786
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 50
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 56.0%

## 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 31.3% (243 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.9% (20 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.7% (47 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 45.7% (321 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 13
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 47.0%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 35.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 14.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 71.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 22.6% — 159 students
- **English Learners**: 26.5% — 186 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 52 students
- **Autism**: 43 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 35 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,328
- **Federal share**: $3,948
- **State + local share**: $12,380
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,866,161
- **Federal share**: 17.6%
- **State share**: 35.5%
- **Local share**: 46.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,489,086

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,069
- **Poverty rate**: 10.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,348
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.5 miles (PIPER AIRCRAFT CORP VERO BEACH WATER SEWER DEPARTMENT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 23
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.23 miles (1501 AVENUE D SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FT. PIERCE UTILITIES AUTHORITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-08-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.31284 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 19.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.85%)
- **PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS TREASURE COAST** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.85%)
- **FAIRLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.85%)
- **ST LUCIE COUNTY JAIL - ROCK ROAD ACADEMY** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.85%)
- **FORT PIERCE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 1.82% (this school: 2.85%)

### ela proficiency
- **INDEPENDENCE CLASSICAL ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 58.5% (this school: 51%)
- **FAIRLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 76% (this school: 51%)
- **FORT PIERCE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 56% (this school: 51%)
- **CREATIVE ARTS ACADEMY OF ST. LUCIE** — 3.2 mi away, 53.5% (this school: 51%)
- **LINCOLN PARK ACADEMY** — 3.4 mi away, 68% (this school: 51%)

### math proficiency
- **FAIRLAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 84% (this school: 61%)
- **LAWNWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 62% (this school: 61%)
- **CREATIVE ARTS ACADEMY OF ST. LUCIE** — 3.2 mi away, 63% (this school: 61%)
- **WHITE CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.6 mi away, 64% (this school: 61%)
- **RIVERS EDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 65% (this school: 61%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/samuel-s-gaines-academy-of-emerging-technologies-fort-pierce
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/samuel-s-gaines-academy-of-emerging-technologies-fort-pierce/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/samuel-s-gaines-academy-of-emerging-technologies-fort-pierce/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/samuel-s-gaines-academy-of-emerging-technologies-fort-pierce/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/samuel-s-gaines-academy-of-emerging-technologies-fort-pierce/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/samuel-s-gaines-academy-of-emerging-technologies-fort-pierce/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/samuel-s-gaines-academy-of-emerging-technologies-fort-pierce/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/samuel-s-gaines-academy-of-emerging-technologies-fort-pierce/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/samuel-s-gaines-academy-of-emerging-technologies-fort-pierce/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/samuel-s-gaines-academy-of-emerging-technologies-fort-pierce/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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