This database was last updated in October 2018, and its latest data is from the 2015-16 school year. Researchers can find more recent data at the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection site.
Miseducation » Florida
Polk County School District
PO BOX 391, BARTOW, FL 33831
101K Students | 5,982 Teachers | 152 Schools
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District Composition
Opportunity
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AP Course Composition
Gifted & Talented Composition
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Students
58% Nonwhite Students
58% Students Who Get Free/Reduced-Price Lunch
72% High School Graduation Rate
20% High School Students Taking at Least One AP Course
5,767 students
5% Students in a Gifted & Talented Program
5,245 students
21% Students Taking the SAT or ACT
6,477 students
3% Students Enrolled in Physics
828 students
5% Students Enrolled in Advanced Math
1,424 students
25% Students Enrolled in in Geometry
7,511 students
28% Students Enrolled in Biology
8,505 students
18% Students Enrolled in Chemistry
5,460 students
7% Students Enrolled in Calculus
2,044 students
1% Students Enrolled in 8th-Grade Algebra
1,134 students
Teachers & Resources
17 Students for Every Teacher
6% Inexperienced Teachers
35% Chronically Absent Teachers
(Missed more than 10 days in a 180-day school year)
14 Average Number of AP Courses per School
2.2 Social Workers, Psychologists & Counselors per 1000 students
19 Schools With Credit Recovery Programs
20 Schools With Dual Enrollment Programs
128 Schools With Gifted & Talented Programs
3 Schools With International Baccalaureates
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Discipline
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Out-of-School Suspension Composition
Expulsion Composition
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Students
12.9K Total Out-of-School Suspended Students
13% of all students in this district
5,956 Total In-School Suspended Students
6% of all students in this district
18 Total Expelled Students
< 1% of all students in this district
Outcomes & Resources
311 Average Days Missed to Out-of-School Suspension, per School
1.7Average Number of Days of an Out-of-School Suspension
0 Total Arrests
2481 Total Referrals to Law Enforcement
16 Average Referrals to Law Enforcement, per School
0 Average Transfers to Alternative Schools, per School
0 Security Guards or Law Enforcement Officers per 1000 students
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Sources & Notes
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis, EDFacts, U.S. Department of Education’s Common Core of Data. Maps courtesy of Mapbox Community. Read our methodology →
Notes: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights occasionally updates the underlying dataset. ProPublica may update the interactive’s data in response.
Disparity scores are not available if there are too few students in a specific racial group to make a statistically significant calculation. They are also not available if data about a particular racial group was not reported. Some schools or districts reported an overcount of students in a disparity category (such as suspensions or AP courses) when compared with the total enrollment of that particular student group. In such cases, we also omit the disparity score.
Due to rounding, demographic breakdowns in composition charts may add up to more than 100 percent.
The racial categories we show data for are: Black, Hispanic, White, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, Two or More Races, and Native American or Alaska Native. In some cases, we abbreviate the last three of these racial groups to Asian, Two+ Races, and Native Am.
Due to a technical issue with the Office for Civil Rights’ collection of data on sworn law enforcement officers in schools, the data for security staff may be an undercount.
As with any self-reported data, there may be errors in the federal Civil Rights Data Collection. Though districts are required to ensure the accuracy of their data, some may still report incorrect figures. Additionally, for some variables, the CRDC rounds the number of students for privacy reasons. In these cases, groups of students may represent a slight undercount or overcount.
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Data specific to high school testing or high school level courses (including geometry, biology, calculus, AP enrollment, SAT testing rates, etc.) is calculated out of total high school enrollment, while data for other classes (such as eighth-grade algebra) is calculated out of total student enrollment. Read more about our data in our methodology →