# VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120126001277`
- **School name**: VANGUARD HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: OCALA, FL 34475
- **Address**: 7 NW 28TH ST
- **District**: MARION (LEAID `1201260`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.21655, -82.13651
- **Phone**: (352)671-4900
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7914827 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_High_School
- **Founded**: 1969

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,684
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 76
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.3%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 86.0%
- **2021**: 88.0% (cohort of 395)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 490

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 40.4% (644 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 3.9% (64 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.5% (270 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 124
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 18.5%
- **Black/African American**: 4.8%
- **Asian**: 32.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 39.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 5.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 58.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.5% — 204 students
- **English Learners**: 3.4% — 55 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 129 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 29 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 17 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,004
- **Federal share**: $1,513
- **State + local share**: $8,491
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,138,174
- **Federal share**: 21.4%
- **State share**: 43.3%
- **Local share**: 35.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,970,359

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $31,771
- **Poverty rate**: 34.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.9%
- **Unemployment**: 11.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $910
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 37.4%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 33.6 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 29
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.70 miles (THE 2330 NORTHEAST 8TH ROAD PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: OCALA, CITY OF (2 WTPS)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2022-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC.** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **ELC PK ESE SERVICES** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **MARION REG. JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER** — 2.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)

### ela proficiency
- **HOWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 54% (this school: 49%)
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 2.0 mi away, 82.5% (this school: 49%)
- **OSCEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 67% (this school: 49%)
- **EIGHTH STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 49%)
- **DR N H JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 80.5% (this school: 49%)

### graduation rate
- **FOREST HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.6 mi away, 91% (this school: 86%)
- **WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.1 mi away, 89% (this school: 86%)

### math proficiency
- **OAKCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 34% (this school: 27%)
- **HOWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 58% (this school: 27%)
- **WYOMINA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 31% (this school: 27%)
- **MADISON STREET ACADEMY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS** — 2.0 mi away, 81% (this school: 27%)
- **FORT KING MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.1 mi away, 42% (this school: 27%)

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