FROSTPROOF MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH

FROSTPROOF MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH, a medium-sized senior high in FROSTPROOF, Florida, one of the schools within POLK, teaches 998 students, covering grades 6 through 12.

Across the 163 schools in POLK (116,552 students total), FROSTPROOF MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, FROSTPROOF MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH logs that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 41% White, 8% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FROSTPROOF MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 40.4%, a residual of -5.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Polk County) logs that median household earnings sit near $65,978, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Polk County's 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), FROSTPROOF MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FROSTPROOF BEN HILL GRIFFIN JR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FROSTPROOF MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 1,135 students in 2018 compared to 998 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 40% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.