# BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120087000925`
- **School name**: BUCHANAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: TAMPA, FL 33613
- **Address**: 1001 W BEARSS AVE
- **District**: HILLSBOROUGH (LEAID `1200870`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 28.08924, -82.46948
- **Phone**: (813)975-7600

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 928
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 62.7%

## 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 54.7% (419 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.5% (28 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 29.9% (188 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 57.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.4%
- **Asian**: 17.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 19.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 69.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 24.3% — 153 students
- **English Learners**: 18.0% — 113 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 77 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 24 students
- **Autism**: 15 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 9 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $11,158
- **Federal share**: $2,382
- **State + local share**: $8,776
### 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**: $71,500
- **Poverty rate**: 6.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 39.8%
- **Unemployment**: 5.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,368
- **Foreign-born residents**: 19.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 0.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.2 miles (SOUTHERN SOLVENTS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.74 miles (12TH STREET SEGMENTS B C)

### 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**: 7.42896 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LEARNING GATE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.45%)
- **DOROTHY THOMAS CENTER** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.45%)
- **HOSPITAL/HOMEBOUND/HOMEBASED PROGRAMS** — 2.2 mi away, 2.99% (this school: 4.45%)
- **GAITHER HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 1.01% (this school: 4.45%)
- **LAKE MAGDALENE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 2.04% (this school: 4.45%)

### ela proficiency
- **LEARNING GATE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 75% (this school: 36%)
- **MORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 42.5% (this school: 36%)
- **GAITHER HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 60% (this school: 36%)
- **LAKE MAGDALENE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 56.5% (this school: 36%)
- **MULLER ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 36.5% (this school: 36%)

### math proficiency
- **LEARNING GATE COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 71% (this school: 44%)
- **MORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 53% (this school: 44%)
- **GAITHER HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 59% (this school: 44%)
- **LAKE MAGDALENE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 61% (this school: 44%)
- **IDEA VICTORY** — 2.6 mi away, 46% (this school: 44%)

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