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Public school / Middle

Richardson Sixth Grade Academy

Lake City, Florida

NCES ID
120036000359
District
Columbia
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Richardson Sixth Grade Academy is a public middle school in Lake City, Florida, run by Columbia. It enrols 450 students — the 43882nd largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

450students

43882nd nationally, tied with 155

Teachers

25.0FTE

53124th nationally, tied with 2,399

Students per teacher

18.0students

70374th nationally, tied with 591

Free or reduced-price lunch

61.1%percent

39502nd nationally, tied with 87

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Columbia

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Columbia High School1,737 students
  2. 2Fort White High School1,158 students
  3. 3Lake City Middle School970 students
  4. 4Belmont Academy759 students
  5. 5Westside Elementary School696 students
  6. 6Fort White Elementary School681 students
  7. 7Eastside Elementary School631 students
  8. 8Columbia City Elementary School615 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Florida median across 4,334 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−26.7%
  • Teachers−34.2%
  • Students per teacher+6.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+6.1%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.