EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-tier K-5 school in EAGLE LAKE, Florida, run under POLK, enrolls 644 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 163 schools operated by POLK, a district that teaches 116,552 students overall.

On demographics, EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 31% White, 21% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Polk County (around 65%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 30.4%, a residual of -13.1 points.

Across the wider county, Polk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,978 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 172 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students).

LAKE REGION HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 20%: 535 students in 2018 compared to 644 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 44% to 31%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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