LAKE MARION CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL

Located at 3055 LAKE MARION CREEK DR, in POINCIANA, Florida, LAKE MARION CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is a moderately sized middle-grades school that serves 1,013 students (grades 6 through 8), run under POLK. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 794 students each, so LAKE MARION CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 163 schools in POLK (116,552 students total), LAKE MARION CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, LAKE MARION CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 40% Black, 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 29% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LAKE MARION CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Polk County (around 65%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAKE MARION CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.3%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Polk County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,978 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. LAKE MARION CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 172 public schools in Polk County (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students).

Nearest neighbor: LAUREL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAKE MARION CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKE MARION CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL has expanded 12%, going from 908 students in 2018 to 1,013 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 25% to 40% across the same window.

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