# THOMAS L SIMS MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120165003504`
- **School name**: THOMAS L SIMS MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: PACE, FL 32571
- **Address**: 5500 EDUCATION DR
- **District**: SANTA ROSA (LEAID `1201650`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 30.63543, -87.16758
- **Phone**: (850)995-3676

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 823
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 40
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 40.1%

## 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 24.6% (247 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.2% (61 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 86
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 2.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 79.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 7.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 42.8%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.1% — 111 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 32 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 8 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $7,689
- **Federal share**: $429
- **State + local share**: $7,259
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $10,967,164
- **Federal share**: 17.0%
- **State share**: 50.9%
- **Local share**: 32.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,996,501

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $105,488
- **Poverty rate**: 6.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 34.9%
- **Unemployment**: 5.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,176
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.1 miles (WHITING FIELD NAVAL AIR STATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.46 miles (SANTA ROSA INDUSTRIAL PARK PLAT 1)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: PACE WATER SYSTEM, INC.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.45995 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PACE HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 0.61% (this school: 1.41%)
- **SANTA ROSA ONLINE VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION PROGRAM** — 4.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.41%)
- **HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND** — 6.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.41%)
- **T. R. JACKSON PREK CENTER** — 7.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.41%)
- **J. M. TATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.9 mi away, 1.07% (this school: 1.41%)

### ela proficiency
- **S. S. DIXON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 70% (this school: 69%)
- **WALLACE LAKE K-8** — 3.6 mi away, 77.5% (this school: 69%)
- **SANTA ROSA VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 4.1 mi away, 89% (this school: 69%)
- **PINE MEADOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 9.5 mi away, 71% (this school: 69%)
- **WEST FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL/TECHNICAL** — 10.7 mi away, 77% (this school: 69%)

### math proficiency
- **WALLACE LAKE K-8** — 3.6 mi away, 82% (this school: 80%)
- **SANTA ROSA VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 4.1 mi away, 84% (this school: 80%)
- **BROWN BARGE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 11.4 mi away, 87% (this school: 80%)
- **N. B. COOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 14.4 mi away, 82% (this school: 80%)
- **BEULAH ACADEMY OF SCIENCE** — 14.6 mi away, 84% (this school: 80%)

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