WILLOW OAK SCHOOL

WILLOW OAK SCHOOL operates as a substantial elementary-level community in MULBERRY, Florida, overseen by POLK. Current enrollment sits at 996 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 65% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

WILLOW OAK SCHOOL is one of 163 schools operated by POLK, a district that works with 116,552 students overall.

Looking at the student body, WILLOW OAK SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 33% White, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting WILLOW OAK SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Polk County's rate of about 65%.

With demographic context factored in, WILLOW OAK SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 44.7%, a residual of +3.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Polk County indicate median household income runs about $65,978, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), WILLOW OAK SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

JAMES W. SIKES 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 WILLOW OAK SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WILLOW OAK SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the WILLOW OAK SCHOOL community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.