# SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120015002590`
- **School name**: SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALM BAY, FL 32909
- **Address**: 451 ELDRON BLVD SE
- **District**: BREVARD (LEAID `1200150`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 7–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.99035, -80.66046
- **Phone**: (321)952-5800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 997
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 52
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.9%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA Achievement (FL FAST)**: 48.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 49.0% proficient
- **ELA Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 42.0% proficient
- **Math Achievement (FL FAST)**: 51.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains (FL FAST)**: 48.0% proficient
- **Math Learning Gains Lowest 25% (FL FAST)**: 47.0% proficient
- **Middle School Acceleration (FL)**: 56.0% proficient
- **Percent Economically Disadvantaged (FL)**: 90.0% proficient
- **Science Achievement (FL SSA)**: 41.0% proficient
- **Social Studies Achievement (FL EOC)**: 60.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 37.4% (338 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.3% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 12.6% (113 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 123
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 19.6%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 23.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 46.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 9.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 57.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.6% — 185 students
- **English Learners**: 4.1% — 37 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 93 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 34 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,583
- **Federal share**: $1,221
- **State + local share**: $9,362
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,326,331
- **Federal share**: 17.8%
- **State share**: 37.1%
- **Local share**: 45.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,095,245

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $62,934
- **Poverty rate**: 27.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.4%
- **Unemployment**: 8.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,377
- **Foreign-born residents**: 14.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.5 miles (HARRIS CORP PALM BAY PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.75 miles (PALM BAY COMPOUND 1)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PALM BAY, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 5
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.64334 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **JOHN F. TURNER SENIOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 0.52% (this school: 1.33%)
- **PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.33%)
- **CHRISTA MCAULIFFE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.33%)
- **COLUMBIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 0.89% (this school: 1.33%)
- **JUPITER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 1.06% (this school: 1.33%)

### ela proficiency
- **PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY** — 1.3 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 48%)
- **CHRISTA MCAULIFFE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 63.5% (this school: 48%)
- **PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT LOCKMAR** — 1.9 mi away, 69.5% (this school: 48%)
- **LOCKMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 52.5% (this school: 48%)
- **ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 48%)

### math proficiency
- **PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY** — 1.3 mi away, 69% (this school: 51%)
- **CHRISTA MCAULIFFE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 59% (this school: 51%)
- **PINEAPPLE COVE CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT LOCKMAR** — 1.9 mi away, 70% (this school: 51%)
- **LOCKMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 57% (this school: 51%)
- **ODYSSEY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 67% (this school: 51%)

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