# DORIS A. SANDERS LEARNING CENTER

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159002402`
- **School name**: DORIS A. SANDERS LEARNING CENTER
- **Location**: LAKELAND, FL 33801
- **Address**: 1201 ENCHANTED DR
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Special education
- **School level**: Other
- **Coordinates**: 28.05957, -81.90145
- **Phone**: (863)499-2980

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 84
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 15
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 5.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.0%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 9)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 61.2% (60 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.0% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 72.6% (61 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 17.3%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 29.6%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 51.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 116.7% — 98 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Intellectual Disability**: 68 students
- **Autism**: 30 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 5 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2022-23)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $40,052
- **Federal share**: $9,967
- **State + local share**: $30,085
### 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**: $41,366
- **Poverty rate**: 28.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 9.3%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,159
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 25.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.9 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 30
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.64 miles (PLK 002 TLC CHURCH PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKELAND, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.88691 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **COMBEE ACADEMY OF DESIGN AND ENGINEERING** — 0.2 mi away, 2.27% (this school: 5.95%)
- **FRESH START COMMUNITY SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.95%)
- **POLK GRAD ACADEMY** — 2.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 5.95%)
- **REAL ACADEMY (REACHING EVERY ADOLESCENT LEARNER)** — 2.0 mi away, 5.3% (this school: 5.95%)
- **CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 5.43% (this school: 5.95%)

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