# PIERCE MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120087000912`
- **School name**: PIERCE MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: TAMPA, FL 33614
- **Address**: 5511 N HESPERIDES ST
- **District**: HILLSBOROUGH (LEAID `1200870`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 27.99783, -82.51835
- **Phone**: (813)872-5344

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 858
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 22.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 67.4%

## 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

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 49.5% (412 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.8% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.1% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 22.9% (201 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 77.1%
- **Black/African American**: 2.4%
- **Asian**: 11.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 7.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 70.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 20.1% — 177 students
- **English Learners**: 21.3% — 187 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 84 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 13 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,024
- **Federal share**: $2,123
- **State + local share**: $6,902
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,612,026
- **Federal share**: 16.1%
- **State share**: 40.7%
- **Local share**: 43.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,180,924

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $52,088
- **Poverty rate**: 17.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.2%
- **Unemployment**: 4.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,439
- **Foreign-born residents**: 52.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.0 miles (SOUTHERN SOLVENTS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 6
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 29
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.21 miles (FORMER W T EDWARDS PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF TAMPA WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.42896 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.2 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 0.8% (this school: 3.75%)
- **LETO HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 1.63% (this school: 3.75%)
- **DETENTION CENTER WEST** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.75%)
- **LES PETERS ACADEMY** — 1.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 3.75%)
- **EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0.61% (this school: 3.75%)

### ela proficiency
- **ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 58% (this school: 34%)
- **LETO HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 49% (this school: 34%)
- **EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 47.5% (this school: 34%)
- **CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 58% (this school: 34%)
- **OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 49% (this school: 34%)

### math proficiency
- **ALEXANDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 75% (this school: 53%)
- **LETO HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 56% (this school: 53%)
- **EGYPT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 62% (this school: 53%)
- **CRESTWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 58% (this school: 53%)
- **OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 54% (this school: 53%)

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