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If you had an hour of school board time for DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
2,731
High
DISTRICT 1,012 · STATE 1,035
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POLK·NCES 120159008685
DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL
4525 COUNTY ROAD 547 N, DAVENPORT, FL 33837 · (863) 534-0500 · Polk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL2,731 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
25.8:1
106 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.0:1 · STATE 23.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
1,346 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 50%
Community
3
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
45.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +1.4pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
FL avg 58.9% . -6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
41.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.5%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 56% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
About DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL
DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL is one of the large secondary schools in DAVENPORT, Florida, overseen by POLK, with 2,731 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL sits 164% above that benchmark.
POLK comprises 163 schools with combined enrollment of 116,552 students; DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
On demographics, DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 18% Black, 17% White. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL has 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Polk County's rate of about 65%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 56.5%; this one comes in at 41.5%, -15.0 points off the demographic line.
Around the school, census data for Polk County shows median household income runs about $65,978, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Polk County's 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
DAVENPORT SCHOOL OF THE ARTS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 53.6%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
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Polk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
790,694
Census ACS
Median income
$65,978
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
172
117,004 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in POLK
- HAINES CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,105 students
- WINTER HAVEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,648 students
- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- GEORGE W. JENKINS SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,469 students
- BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,276 students
- LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,985 students
Other schools in DAVENPORT
- RIDGE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,632 students
- RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMYCombined · 1,581 students
- HORIZONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,543 students
- DAVENPORT SCHOOL OF THE ARTSElementary · 1,440 students
- FOUR CORNERS UPPER SCHOOLHigh · 1,401 students
- LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 1,179 students
Nearby schools
- DAVENPORT SCHOOL OF THE ARTS0.2 mi · 1,440
- LOUGHMAN OAKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 1,179
- MATER ACADEMY DAVENPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL1.8 mi · 334
- MATER ACADEMY DAVENPORT1.8 mi · 815
- RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY3.8 mi · 1,581
- ACADEMIR PREPARATORY OF CHAMPIONSGATE3.9 mi · 366
Frequently asked questions
About DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOLHow large is DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL?
DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 2,731 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL serve?
DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many teachers does DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL have?
DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL employs 106 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 25.8:1.
How diverse is DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL?
DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 17% White, 61% Hispanic, 18% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL?
DAVENPORT HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by POLK in Polk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.