MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a senior high of average-sized scale in MULBERRY, Florida, operated by POLK, serveing 1,451 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 40% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 38% White, 9% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 23.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 69% of students at MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.3%.

In the broader community, Polk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,978 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Polk County's 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

MULBERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 50.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MULBERRY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has climbed 29%, going from 1,127 students in 2018 to 1,451 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 39% to 50% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 today.

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