# TAVARES MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120105001103`
- **School name**: TAVARES MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: TAVARES, FL 32778
- **Address**: 1335 LANE PARK CUTOFF OFC
- **District**: LAKE (LEAID `1201050`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 28.77074, -81.74112
- **Phone**: (352)343-4545

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 933
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 59
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 48.0%

## 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 47.4% (462 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.3% (23 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.8% (28 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 21.0% (210 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 93
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 23.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.2%
- **Asian**: 17.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 52.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 4.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 47.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.5% — 205 students
- **English Learners**: 0.1% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 102 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 18 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,259
- **Federal share**: $1,126
- **State + local share**: $9,133
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,880,925
- **Federal share**: 17.3%
- **State share**: 37.2%
- **Local share**: 45.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,056,560

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $78,214
- **Poverty rate**: 8.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.7%
- **Unemployment**: 2.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,390
- **Foreign-born residents**: 7.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.2 miles (ZELLWOOD GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.60 miles (PHILLIPS 66 FOOD MART)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: TAVARES WATER DEPARTMENT (4 WPS)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-09-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LAKE COUNTY ACER PROGRAM** — 2.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.3%)
- **TAVARES HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 0.81% (this school: 2.3%)
- **NONSCHOOL EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION** — 2.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.3%)
- **NON SCHOOL PK** — 2.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.3%)
- **PINECREST ACADEMY TAVARES** — 4.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.3%)

### ela proficiency
- **PINECREST ACADEMY TAVARES** — 4.3 mi away, 72% (this school: 50%)
- **LAKE VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 5.5 mi away, 67% (this school: 50%)
- **TREADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.7 mi away, 57% (this school: 50%)
- **MT. DORA HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 62% (this school: 50%)
- **ZELLWOOD ELEMENTARY** — 8.8 mi away, 53.5% (this school: 50%)

### math proficiency
- **PINECREST ACADEMY TAVARES** — 4.3 mi away, 77% (this school: 55%)
- **TREADWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.7 mi away, 66% (this school: 55%)
- **MT. DORA HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.7 mi away, 57% (this school: 55%)
- **MT. DORA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 7.1 mi away, 56% (this school: 55%)
- **ZELLWOOD ELEMENTARY** — 8.8 mi away, 56% (this school: 55%)

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