EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH

EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH is a junior high of mid-sized scale in LAKE WALES, Florida, overseen by POLK, enrolling 726 students in grades 6 through 8.

POLK comprises 163 schools with combined enrollment of 116,552 students; EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH is among them.

Demographically, EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 33% White, 23% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian.

On the resource side, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.2:1. The state averages about 19.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.3%; this one delivers 52.7%.

In the broader community, census data for Polk County shows median household earnings sit near $65,978, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Polk County's 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH is one campus in the mix.

SPOOK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 43.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. As a public charter, EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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