# DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159008515`
- **School name**: DISCOVERY HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKE ALFRED, FL 33850
- **Address**: 1000 N BUENA VISTA DR
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 28.11238, -81.72490
- **Phone**: (863)268-7178

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 898
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 45
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 63.7%

## 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

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.0%
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 178)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 239

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 27.5% (252 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.3% (2 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 45.7%
- **Black/African American**: 1.3%
- **Asian**: 15.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 35.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 70.9%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.8% — 63 students
- **English Learners**: 4.4% — 36 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,257
- **Federal share**: $795
- **State + local share**: $9,462
### 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**: $80,393
- **Poverty rate**: 11.8%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.1%
- **Unemployment**: 1.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,454
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 12.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 16.3 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 7
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.66 miles (LAKE ALFRED GRAYS TRUCKING SITE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKE ALFRED, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-08-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.88691 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF LAKE ALFRED** — 0.4 mi away, 0.66% (this school: 0.74%)
- **KAREN M. SIEGEL ACADEMY** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.74%)
- **HARTRIDGE ACADEMY** — 3.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.74%)
- **JEWETT SCHOOL OF THE ARTS** — 4.6 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 0.74%)
- **JEWETT MIDDLE ACADEMY MAGNET** — 4.7 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 0.74%)

### ela proficiency
- **DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF LAKE ALFRED** — 0.4 mi away, 57% (this school: 42%)
- **LAKE ALFRED POLYTECH ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 47% (this school: 42%)
- **LAKE ALFRED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 51% (this school: 42%)
- **HARTRIDGE ACADEMY** — 3.2 mi away, 73% (this school: 42%)
- **WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 49.5% (this school: 42%)

### graduation rate
- **CHAIN OF LAKES COLLEGIATE HIGH** — 5.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 97%)
- **POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL** — 13.1 mi away, 100% (this school: 97%)

### math proficiency
- **DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF LAKE ALFRED** — 0.4 mi away, 54% (this school: 18%)
- **LAKE ALFRED POLYTECH ACADEMY** — 0.5 mi away, 50% (this school: 18%)
- **LAKE ALFRED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 54% (this school: 18%)
- **HARTRIDGE ACADEMY** — 3.2 mi away, 82% (this school: 18%)
- **WALTER CALDWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 55% (this school: 18%)

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