# SOUTHSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120048000737`
- **School name**: SOUTHSIDE MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: JACKSONVILLE, FL 32216
- **Address**: 2948 KNIGHTS LN E
- **District**: DUVAL (LEAID `1200480`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 30.27129, -81.59551
- **Phone**: (904)739-5238

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 805
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 39
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 47.0%

## 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 64.0% (582 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.3% (35 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.8% (39 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.5% (159 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 34.9%
- **Black/African American**: 6.7%
- **Asian**: 33.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 20.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.6%
- **Two or more races**: 3.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 50.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.1% — 139 students
- **English Learners**: 27.6% — 225 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 19 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,874
- **Federal share**: $1,754
- **State + local share**: $7,121
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,451,321
- **Federal share**: 19.8%
- **State share**: 39.3%
- **Local share**: 40.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,104,841

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $55,875
- **Poverty rate**: 13.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.1%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,097
- **Foreign-born residents**: 24.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.4 miles (KERR MCGEE CHEMICAL CORP JACKSONVILLE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 25
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.92 miles (FORMER METTER AUTO PARTS)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: JEA MAJOR GRID
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-11-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.14913 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **GREENFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 1.03% (this school: 4.3%)
- **ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 2.39% (this school: 4.3%)
- **HOGAN-SPRING GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 2.91% (this school: 4.3%)
- **GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.3%)
- **ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 2.21% (this school: 4.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **GREENFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 45.5% (this school: 27%)
- **ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 37% (this school: 27%)
- **HOGAN-SPRING GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 41% (this school: 27%)
- **ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 48% (this school: 27%)
- **RIVER CITY SCIENCE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 81% (this school: 27%)

### math proficiency
- **GREENFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 57% (this school: 37%)
- **ENGLEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 42% (this school: 37%)
- **HOGAN-SPRING GLEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 49% (this school: 37%)
- **ENGLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 54% (this school: 37%)
- **RIVER CITY SCIENCE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY** — 1.4 mi away, 88% (this school: 37%)

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