LANGUAGE & LITERACY ACADEMY FOR LEARNING

LANGUAGE & LITERACY ACADEMY FOR LEARNING, a mid-tier combined-grade school in WINTER HAVEN, Florida, part of POLK, enrolls 332 students, covering grades pre-K through 12.

POLK comprises 163 schools with combined enrollment of 116,552 students; LANGUAGE & LITERACY ACADEMY FOR LEARNING is among them.

Demographically, LANGUAGE & LITERACY ACADEMY FOR LEARNING reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 28% White, 25% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.7:1, putting LANGUAGE & LITERACY ACADEMY FOR LEARNING higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Polk County's rate of about 65%.

In the broader community, Polk County reports that 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), LANGUAGE & LITERACY ACADEMY FOR LEARNING is one campus in the mix.

DENISON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

LANGUAGE & LITERACY ACADEMY FOR LEARNING operates from a downtown location. LANGUAGE & LITERACY ACADEMY FOR LEARNING operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.