# HOWARD W. BISHOP MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120003000011`
- **School name**: HOWARD W. BISHOP MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: GAINESVILLE, FL 32609
- **Address**: 1901 NE 9TH ST
- **District**: ALACHUA (LEAID `1200030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 29.66917, -82.31430
- **Phone**: (352)955-6701

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 824
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 36
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 50.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: B

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 21.8% (137 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.2% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.8% (24 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 19.9% (168 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 3
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 9.2%
- **Black/African American**: 4.6%
- **Asian**: 47.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 29.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 57.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.8% — 74 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 55 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,215
- **Federal share**: $743
- **State + local share**: $8,473
### 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**: $51,266
- **Poverty rate**: 18.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.6%
- **Unemployment**: 6.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,231
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.7 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.40 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**: 7.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **RESILIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL INC** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.18%)
- **BOULWARE SPRINGS CHARTER** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.18%)
- **PACE** — 1.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.18%)
- **THE ONE ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE PROJECT** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.18%)
- **ALACHUA ESCHOOL (VIRTUAL FRANCHISE)** — 1.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.18%)

### ela proficiency
- **BOULWARE SPRINGS CHARTER** — 0.5 mi away, 64% (this school: 56%)
- **THE ONE ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE PROJECT** — 1.5 mi away, 58.5% (this school: 56%)
- **PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY MAGNET AT LOFTEN HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 64% (this school: 56%)
- **ABRAHAM LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 62% (this school: 56%)
- **P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 86% (this school: 56%)

### math proficiency
- **BOULWARE SPRINGS CHARTER** — 0.5 mi away, 77% (this school: 55%)
- **GAINESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 58% (this school: 55%)
- **PROFESSIONAL ACADEMY MAGNET AT LOFTEN HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 67% (this school: 55%)
- **ABRAHAM LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 57% (this school: 55%)
- **P.K. YONGE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 87% (this school: 55%)

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