LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in FORT MEADE, Florida, part of POLK, with 593 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

POLK runs 163 schools in total, collectively educating 116,552 students. LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 30% White, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 79% of students at LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Polk County runs at roughly 65%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate median household income runs about $65,978, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FORT MEADE MIDDLE/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.7 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 45.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 12%: 674 students in 2018 compared to 593 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 51% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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