# SILVER SANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120192002417`
- **School name**: SILVER SANDS MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: PORT ORANGE, FL 32129
- **Address**: 1300 HERBERT ST
- **District**: VOLUSIA (LEAID `1201920`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 29.13140, -81.01720
- **Phone**: (386)322-7550

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,199
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 58
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 54.5%

## 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 40.9% (455 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.5% (28 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.9% (263 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 152
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.7%
- **Black/African American**: 3.1%
- **Asian**: 14.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 67.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 57.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.6% — 205 students
- **English Learners**: 2.7% — 30 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 113 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 25 students
- **Autism**: 23 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,658
- **Federal share**: $1,644
- **State + local share**: $8,013
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,432,324
- **Federal share**: 18.5%
- **State share**: 34.5%
- **Local share**: 47.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,721,141

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $64,619
- **Poverty rate**: 20.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,483
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 15.7 miles (SHERWOOD MEDICAL INDUSTRIES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.87 miles (2033 ANASTASIA DRIVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PORT ORANGE, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.85789 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.6 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SWEETWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 0.6% (this school: 2.55%)
- **ATLANTIC HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 1.39% (this school: 2.55%)
- **HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.55%)
- **HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 2.27% (this school: 2.55%)
- **SPRUCE CREEK HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0.78% (this school: 2.55%)

### ela proficiency
- **SWEETWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 82% (this school: 56%)
- **HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 63% (this school: 56%)
- **SPRUCE CREEK HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 67% (this school: 56%)
- **PORT ORANGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 68.5% (this school: 56%)
- **SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 56%)

### math proficiency
- **SWEETWATER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 89% (this school: 54%)
- **SUGAR MILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 61% (this school: 54%)
- **HORIZON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 67% (this school: 54%)
- **PORT ORANGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 75% (this school: 54%)
- **SPRUCE CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 74% (this school: 54%)

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