# SOUTHERN OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/southern-oaks-middle-school-port-st-lucie

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120177003020`
- **School name**: SOUTHERN OAKS MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: PORT ST LUCIE, FL 34983
- **Address**: 5500 NE SAINT JAMES DR
- **District**: ST. LUCIE (LEAID `1201770`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.36140, -80.35540
- **Phone**: (772)785-5640

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 833
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 43
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.7%

## 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 26.2% (217 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 24.7% (224 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 88
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 30.6%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 23.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 39.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 5.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 66.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.8% — 134 students
- **English Learners**: 6.3% — 57 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 50 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 34 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 19 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,327
- **Federal share**: $1,605
- **State + local share**: $8,722
### 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**: $71,120
- **Poverty rate**: 4.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,440
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 18.3 miles (SOLITRON MICROWAVE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.48 miles (HEATHCOTE BOTANICAL GARDENS EXPANSION AREA)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PORT ST LUCIE UTILITIES
- **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**: 14.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **RIVERS EDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 1.47% (this school: 1.65%)
- **DATA HOUSE** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.65%)
- **WEST GATE K-8 SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 0.76% (this school: 1.65%)
- **ST. LUCIE DETENTION CENTER** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.65%)
- **NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 1.11% (this school: 1.65%)

### ela proficiency
- **RIVERS EDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 55.5% (this school: 45%)
- **PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 45%)
- **WHITE CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 52% (this school: 45%)
- **FORT PIERCE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 56% (this school: 45%)
- **WEST GATE K-8 SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 59.5% (this school: 45%)

### math proficiency
- **RIVERS EDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 65% (this school: 53%)
- **PARKWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 67% (this school: 53%)
- **WHITE CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 64% (this school: 53%)
- **WEST GATE K-8 SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 71% (this school: 53%)
- **NORTHPORT K-8 SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 54% (this school: 53%)

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