About Polk School District
Polk School District is a public school system serving Polk County, Florida, based in Bartow. It serves 111,372 students across 165 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #7 largest of Florida’s 82 school systems.
Size and structure
Polk School District enrolls 111,372 students in 165 schools — an average of about 675 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #7 of 82 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Polk School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (111,372 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Polk School District employs about 5,762 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 19.3:1 — above the Florida average of about 18.3:1. Total district staff is roughly 13,689.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Florida funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Polk School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Florida assigns A–F grades to every school and district from achievement and learning gains in English language arts, math and science, the gains of the lowest-performing quartile, graduation rate and college-and-career acceleration. Look up Polk School District’s grade on the Florida school grades page.
Accreditation status
Most Florida districts are accredited through Cognia (via its SACS CASI division), which accredits whole district “systems” as well as individual schools. Look up Polk School District in the free Cognia registry.
Polk School District vs. Florida
See every Florida district side by side in the Florida directory.
Look up Polk School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):