# CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120081005548`
- **School name**: CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH
- **Location**: SPRING HILL, FL 34609
- **Address**: 13400 ELGIN BLVD
- **District**: HERNANDO (LEAID `1200810`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 28.49571, -82.50197
- **Phone**: (352)797-7024

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,456
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 90
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 16.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 28.4%

## 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 10.9% (142 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 10.4% (152 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 20.6%
- **Black/African American**: 3.4%
- **Asian**: 3.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 66.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 5.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 36.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.4% — 109 students
- **English Learners**: 1.0% — 15 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 42 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 34 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,291
- **Federal share**: $662
- **State + local share**: $9,629
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,301,401
- **Federal share**: 15.1%
- **State share**: 44.9%
- **Local share**: 39.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,514,741

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $101,066
- **Poverty rate**: 11.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 21.2%
- **Unemployment**: 8.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,732
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 4.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 28.2 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 3
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.70 miles (AFF HOUSING HADDOCK DRIVE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: WEEKI WACHEE SPRINGS ATTR
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 5
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **HERNANDO ESCHOOL VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 9.2 mi away, 83% (this school: 78%)
- **DAYSPRING ANGELINE** — 14.0 mi away, 81.5% (this school: 78%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-k-8-school-of-science-and-math-spring-hill/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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