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FRESH START COMMUNITY SCHOOL → REAL ACADEMY (REACHING EVERY ADOLESCENT LEARNER) → Pathways School Of Excellence → Lakeland Institute For Learning, Org., Corp → Santa Fe Catholic High School → Geneva Classical Academy → LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL → The Cape Academy →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 23% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 67% (Bottom 13% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How POLK GRAD ACADEMY compares for families
What families should know about POLK GRAD ACADEMY.
- ▸ LocallyFL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: FRESH START COMMUNITY SCHOOL, REAL ACADEMY (REACHING EVERY ADOLESCENT LEARNER), Pathways School Of Excellence and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 23% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 13% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -41.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 14 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRESH START COMMUNITY SCHOOL LAKELAND |
Public | 0.0 | 105 | +5.0% |
| REAL ACADEMY (REACHING EVERY ADOLESCENT LEARNER) LAKELAND |
Public | 0.1 | 52 | — |
| Pathways School Of Excellence Lakeland |
Private | 0.4 | 52 | — |
| Lakeland Institute For Learning, Org., Corp Lakeland |
Private | 1.0 | 64 | -7.2% |
| Santa Fe Catholic High School Lakeland |
Private | 1.4 | 356 | +2.9% |
| Geneva Classical Academy Lakeland |
Private | 1.5 | 183 | +23.6% |
| LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LAKELAND |
Public | 1.7 | 1,985 | -1.0% |
| The Cape Academy Cape Coral |
Private | 1.7 | 205 | +241.7% |