# VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159005350`
- **School name**: VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY
- **Location**: LAKE WALES, FL 33853
- **Address**: 501 BURNS AVE
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **School level**: Other
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 27.91464, -81.58281
- **Phone**: (863)679-3338

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 321
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 25
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 65.4%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 7)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 28.4% (78 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.0% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 31.9% (100 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 40.9%
- **Black/African American**: 0.7%
- **Asian**: 16.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 39.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 58.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 85.3% — 268 students
- **English Learners**: 0.6% — 2 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Intellectual Disability**: 60 students
- **Autism**: 56 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 37 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 13 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $43,851
- **Federal share**: $2,067
- **State + local share**: $41,784
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,489,537
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 43.8%
- **Local share**: 35.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,033,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $69,972
- **Poverty rate**: 12.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.3%
- **Unemployment**: 0.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $968
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 25.7 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.94 miles (RIDGE FERTILIZER)

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

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH** — 0.6 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 0.96%)
- **BOK ACADEMY** — 6.3 mi away, 0.64% (this school: 0.96%)
- **DUNDEE RIDGE MIDDLE ACADEMY** — 7.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.96%)
- **DON E WOODS OPPORTUNITY CENTER** — 7.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.96%)
- **DUNDEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY** — 8.0 mi away, 0.63% (this school: 0.96%)

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