# FORT CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120003000032`
- **School name**: FORT CLARKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: GAINESVILLE, FL 32606
- **Address**: 9301 NW 23RD AVE
- **District**: ALACHUA (LEAID `1200030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 29.67324, -82.44180
- **Phone**: (352)333-2800

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 840
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 51.3%

## 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 27.1% (253 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.1% (19 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 16.8% (149 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 48
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.1%
- **Black/African American**: 4.3%
- **Asian**: 33.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 39.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 9.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 51.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.3% — 127 students
- **English Learners**: 1.4% — 12 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 80 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 14 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 6 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,640
- **Federal share**: $1,123
- **State + local share**: $8,517
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,718,967
- **Federal share**: 19.4%
- **State share**: 36.3%
- **Local share**: 44.3%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,722,889

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $107,514
- **Poverty rate**: 9.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 60.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,691
- **Foreign-born residents**: 15.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 7.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 7.1 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 0
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.06 miles (MCB OIL PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: GRU - MURPHREE WTP
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.52865 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 12.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0.58% (this school: 1.35%)
- **F. W. BUCHHOLZ HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 0.78% (this school: 1.35%)
- **HEALTHY LEARNING ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 4.7 mi away, 0.9% (this school: 1.35%)
- **THE EINSTEIN SCHOOL INC.** — 5.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)

### ela proficiency
- **HIDDEN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 73% (this school: 61%)
- **MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 67.5% (this school: 61%)
- **F. W. BUCHHOLZ HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 67% (this school: 61%)
- **HEALTHY LEARNING ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 76% (this school: 61%)
- **LAWTON M. CHILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 72% (this school: 61%)

### math proficiency
- **HIDDEN OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.1 mi away, 70% (this school: 63%)
- **MEADOWBROOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 71% (this school: 63%)
- **HEALTHY LEARNING ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 65% (this school: 63%)
- **LAWTON M. CHILES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 71% (this school: 63%)
- **WILLIAM S. TALBOT ELEM SCHOOL** — 4.1 mi away, 71% (this school: 63%)

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