BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the sizable secondary schools in BARTOW, Florida, part of POLK, with 2,276 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 120% bigger than the state mean of about 1,035.

POLK comprises 163 schools with combined enrollment of 116,552 students; BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 20% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 56% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.2%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Polk County reports that median household income runs about $65,978, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Polk County's 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JEAN O'DELL LEARNING CENTER, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 2,294 students in 2018 compared to 2,276 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 47% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

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