# SOUTHWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120039000583`
- **School name**: SOUTHWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: PALMETTO BAY, FL 33157
- **Address**: 16301 SW 80TH AVE
- **District**: MIAMI-DADE (LEAID `1200390`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 25.61958, -80.32207
- **Phone**: (305)251-5361
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7571496 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwood_Middle_School
- **Founded**: 1975

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,063
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 31.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: A
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: A

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 82.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 23.7% (267 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.3% (123 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 58.4%
- **Black/African American**: 2.2%
- **Asian**: 22.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 16.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 35.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.9% — 140 students
- **English Learners**: 4.2% — 45 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 89 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 46 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,070
- **Federal share**: $1,261
- **State + local share**: $8,808
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,452,063
- **Federal share**: 19.5%
- **State share**: 23.3%
- **Local share**: 57.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,807,498

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $216,711
- **Poverty rate**: 2.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 71.6%
- **Unemployment**: 2.1%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 2.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.1 miles (HOMESTEAD AIR FORCE BASE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.42 miles (PARKING LOT AND EASEMENT 225 227 NE 79 ST)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.37928 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 79%)
- **CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 87% (this school: 79%)
- **PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 91% (this school: 79%)
- **TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT PINECREST** — 2.7 mi away, 96% (this school: 79%)
- **CUTLER BAY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 82% (this school: 79%)

### math proficiency
- **WHISPERING PINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 84% (this school: 81%)
- **PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 95% (this school: 81%)
- **TRUE NORTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY AT PINECREST** — 2.7 mi away, 94% (this school: 81%)
- **MATER ACADEMY BAY MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.1 mi away, 91% (this school: 81%)
- **PINECREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 88% (this school: 81%)

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