SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in LAKELAND, Florida, one of the schools within POLK, serveing 711 students in grades pre-K through 5.

SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 163 schools operated by POLK, a district that teaches 116,552 students overall.

Looking at the student body, SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 25% White, 24% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Polk County's rate of about 65%.

After controlling for student poverty, SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.1%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of +4.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Polk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,978 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Polk County's 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SLEEPY HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 36.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 730 (now 711). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 39% to 45% over that span.

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