# CHALLENGER MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/challenger-middle-school-cape-coral

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120108004919`
- **School name**: CHALLENGER MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: CAPE CORAL, FL 33991
- **Address**: 624 TRAFALGAR PKWY
- **District**: LEE (LEAID `1201080`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 26.62194, -81.98886
- **Phone**: (239)242-4341

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 999
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 53
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 18.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 41.5%

## 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 23.5% (262 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.3% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 15.8% (181 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 17
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 42.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 4.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 47.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.0% — 148 students
- **English Learners**: 6.6% — 75 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 83 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 19 students
- **Autism**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,736
- **Federal share**: $1,012
- **State + local share**: $8,725
### 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**: $71,863
- **Poverty rate**: 4.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.3%
- **Unemployment**: 2.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,764
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 79.0 miles (JJ SEIFERT MACHINE)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.61 miles (CLEMENTE PARK 3 PROPERTIES PILOT FUNDED)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CAPE CORAL, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 1
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.74021 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **HERITAGE CHARTER ACADEMY OF CAPE CORAL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.26%)
- **TRAFALGAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.26%)
- **TRAFALGAR MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.26%)
- **MID CAPE GLOBAL ACADEMY** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.26%)
- **HECTOR A. CAFFERATA JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.26%)

### ela proficiency
- **GULF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 70% (this school: 67%)
- **OASIS CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-SOUTH** — 3.1 mi away, 71% (this school: 67%)
- **OASIS CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 79% (this school: 67%)
- **OASIS CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 75% (this school: 67%)
- **OASIS ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL-NORTH** — 3.2 mi away, 76.5% (this school: 67%)

### math proficiency
- **OASIS CHARTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-SOUTH** — 3.1 mi away, 80% (this school: 77%)
- **OASIS CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 86% (this school: 77%)
- **OASIS ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL-NORTH** — 3.2 mi away, 85% (this school: 77%)
- **FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 7.7 mi away, 93% (this school: 77%)
- **PINE ISLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 7.8 mi away, 79% (this school: 77%)

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