# BENITO MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120087003178`
- **School name**: BENITO MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: TAMPA, FL 33647
- **Address**: 10101 CROSS CREEK BLVD
- **District**: HILLSBOROUGH (LEAID `1200870`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 28.14106, -82.32408
- **Phone**: (813)631-4694

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 903
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 47
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 19.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 28.7%

## 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 21.1% (213 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.0% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.0% (152 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 25.8%
- **Black/African American**: 14.3%
- **Asian**: 24.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 6.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 37.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.4% — 157 students
- **English Learners**: 8.3% — 84 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 83 students
- **Autism**: 16 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 3 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $8,653
- **Federal share**: $1,159
- **State + local share**: $7,495
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,612,026
- **Federal share**: 16.1%
- **State share**: 40.7%
- **Local share**: 43.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,180,924

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $119,010
- **Poverty rate**: 6.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 64.6%
- **Unemployment**: 6.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,547
- **Foreign-born residents**: 25.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.8 miles (ARKLA TERRA PROPERTY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.60 miles (AFF HOUSE SITE WESLEY CHAPEL BAYTHORN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF TAMPA WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.66137 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 13.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HUNTER'S GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.37% (this school: 0.98%)
- **PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.98%)
- **HERITAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.98%)
- **CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 0.23% (this school: 0.98%)
- **SAND PINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.98%)

### ela proficiency
- **HUNTER'S GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 75% (this school: 72%)
- **PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 72%)
- **CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 72%)
- **DR. JOHN LONG MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 73% (this school: 72%)
- **CHILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 86.5% (this school: 72%)

### math proficiency
- **PRIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 84% (this school: 77%)
- **CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 83% (this school: 77%)
- **DR. JOHN LONG MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 85% (this school: 77%)
- **CHILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 86% (this school: 77%)
- **DR. KIRAN C. PATEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 85% (this school: 77%)

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