# SHIELDS MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120087004156`
- **School name**: SHIELDS MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: RUSKIN, FL 33573
- **Address**: 15732 BETH SHIELDS WAY
- **District**: HILLSBOROUGH (LEAID `1200870`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.73989, -82.36943
- **Phone**: (813)672-5338

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,593
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 60
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 26.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 60.2%

## 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 42.4% (698 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.9% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.7% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.7% (414 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 62.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.4%
- **Asian**: 20.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 13.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 2.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 67.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.9% — 313 students
- **English Learners**: 6.5% — 113 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 151 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 26 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,574
- **Federal share**: $1,813
- **State + local share**: $6,762
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,612,026
- **Federal share**: 16.1%
- **State share**: 40.7%
- **Local share**: 43.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,180,924

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $93,109
- **Poverty rate**: 5.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.8%
- **Unemployment**: 1.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,138
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.9 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 9
- **Nearest brownfield**: 12.64 miles (TAMPA SCRAP PROCESSORS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: RIVERSIDE GOLF COURSE COMMUNITY LLC
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.42896 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **CYPRESS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 0.81% (this school: 0.86%)
- **LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.86%)
- **LENNARD HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0.83% (this school: 0.86%)
- **BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 0.31% (this school: 0.86%)
- **WATERSET CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.86%)

### ela proficiency
- **CYPRESS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 41% (this school: 31%)
- **DOROTHY C YORK PK-8 MAGNET SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 74% (this school: 31%)
- **LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY** — 1.7 mi away, 54.5% (this school: 31%)
- **LENNARD HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 47% (this school: 31%)
- **BELMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 54% (this school: 31%)

### math proficiency
- **CYPRESS CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 51% (this school: 41%)
- **DOROTHY C YORK PK-8 MAGNET SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 78% (this school: 41%)
- **LITERACY LEADERSHIP TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY SOUTH BAY** — 1.7 mi away, 60% (this school: 41%)
- **LENNARD HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 46% (this school: 41%)
- **THOMPSON ELEMENTARY** — 2.7 mi away, 42% (this school: 41%)

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