# SIDNEY LANIER CENTER

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sidney-lanier-center-gainesville/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/sidney-lanier-center-gainesville

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120003000006`
- **School name**: SIDNEY LANIER CENTER
- **Location**: GAINESVILLE, FL 32601
- **Address**: 312 NW 16TH AVE
- **District**: ALACHUA (LEAID `1200030`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Alternative/other
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.66775, -82.32743
- **Phone**: (352)955-6841

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 139
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 16
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.7:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.2%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 14)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 46.1% (77 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 4.2% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 4.2% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 45.5% (75 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.6%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 12.0%
- **Black/African American**: 3.6%
- **Asian**: 47.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 28.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 7.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 89.7% — 148 students
- **English Learners**: 0.6% — 1 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Intellectual Disability**: 54 students
- **Autism**: 32 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 23 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 10 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 5 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $36,049
- **Federal share**: $7,710
- **State + local share**: $28,338
### 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**: $47,813
- **Poverty rate**: 32.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 47.0%
- **Unemployment**: 5.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $942
- **Foreign-born residents**: 5.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 56.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.6 miles (CABOT KOPPERS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.09 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**: 7.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **RESILIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL INC** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 4.24%)
- **HOWARD W. BISHOP MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 1.18% (this school: 4.24%)
- **GAINESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 1.51% (this school: 4.24%)
- **A.QUINN JONES CENTER** — 0.8 mi away, 3.3% (this school: 4.24%)
- **W. A. METCALFE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 2.48% (this school: 4.24%)

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