# VETERANS PARK ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120108003950`
- **School name**: VETERANS PARK ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS
- **Location**: LEHIGH ACRES, FL 33936
- **Address**: 49 HOMESTEAD RD S
- **District**: LEE (LEAID `1201080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.59672, -81.63442
- **Phone**: (239)303-3003

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,937
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 102
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 60.1%

## 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 12.9% (223 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 10.1% (175 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 20
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 57.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 20.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 17.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 3.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 69.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.2% — 264 students
- **English Learners**: 12.6% — 219 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 92 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 77 students
- **Autism**: 55 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Deaf-Blindness**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,036
- **Federal share**: $2,412
- **State + local share**: $9,624
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,926,191
- **Federal share**: 17.0%
- **State share**: 25.0%
- **Local share**: 58.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,235,380

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $65,876
- **Poverty rate**: 11.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.1%
- **Unemployment**: 6.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,458
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 76.0 miles (FLORIDA STEEL CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.02 miles (EASTWOOD GOLF COURSE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: FLORIDA GOVERNMENTAL UTILITY AUTHORITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-05-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.74021 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 15.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LEHIGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.6 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 0.57%)
- **VARSITY LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 0.57%)
- **GATEWAY HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.5 mi away, 0.17% (this school: 0.57%)
- **GATEWAY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 8.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.57%)
- **THE ALVA SCHOOL** — 8.5 mi away, 0.33% (this school: 0.57%)

### ela proficiency
- **LEHIGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 47.5% (this school: 44.5%)
- **LEHIGH ACRES MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 50% (this school: 44.5%)
- **MIRROR LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 51% (this school: 44.5%)
- **HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 48% (this school: 44.5%)
- **LEHIGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.6 mi away, 52% (this school: 44.5%)

### math proficiency
- **LEHIGH ACRES MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 56% (this school: 50%)
- **MIRROR LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 62% (this school: 50%)
- **HARNS MARSH MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 60% (this school: 50%)
- **VARSITY LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.9 mi away, 51% (this school: 50%)
- **GATEWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 62% (this school: 50%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/veterans-park-academy-for-the-arts-lehigh-acres
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/veterans-park-academy-for-the-arts-lehigh-acres/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/veterans-park-academy-for-the-arts-lehigh-acres/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/veterans-park-academy-for-the-arts-lehigh-acres/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/veterans-park-academy-for-the-arts-lehigh-acres/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/veterans-park-academy-for-the-arts-lehigh-acres/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/veterans-park-academy-for-the-arts-lehigh-acres/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/veterans-park-academy-for-the-arts-lehigh-acres/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/veterans-park-academy-for-the-arts-lehigh-acres/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/veterans-park-academy-for-the-arts-lehigh-acres/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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