WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL

WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in WINTER HAVEN, Florida, one of the schools within POLK, instructs 712 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

POLK runs 163 schools in total, collectively educating 116,552 students. WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 33% Black, 17% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 29% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 77% 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 north of Polk County's rate of about 65%.

With demographic context factored in, WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 32.9%, a residual of -9.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,978 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Polk County runs 172 public schools (combined enrollment of about 117,004 students), of which WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

INWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 720 students in 2018 to 712 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 26% to 17%. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

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