RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY

Located at 1000 DUNSON RD, in DAVENPORT, Florida, RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY is a big all-grades campus that works with 1,581 students (grades K through 12), run under POLK. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 353 students each, so RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY sits 348% above that benchmark.

Within POLK, which oversees 163 schools and 116,552 students, RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY logs that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 41% Hispanic, 11% Black, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY has 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Polk County's rate of about 65%.

After controlling for student poverty, RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.2%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of +10.8 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,978 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Polk County's 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FOUR CORNERS UPPER SCHOOL, around 1.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area. As a public charter, RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 26%: 1,257 students in 2018 compared to 1,581 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.