High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
Lake Wales Senior High School, Lake Wales, FL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,597
- Teachers (FTE)
- 73.0
- Students per teacher
- 21.9
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is 2.6 higher than the district figure of 19.3. The Florida average across schools is 18.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 1 Highlander Way, Lake Wales, FL 33853
- Phone
- (863)678-4222
- District
- Polk County Public Schools
- County
- Polk County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- Yes
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 120159001790
School meals
- Free lunch
- 993
- Reduced-price lunch
- 102
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 1,09568.6% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 993Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Polk County Public Schools
- Haines City Senior High School 3,105 students
- Davenport High School 2,731 students
- Winter Haven Senior High School 2,648 students
- Ridge Community High School 2,632 students
- George W. Jenkins Senior High 2,469 students
- Bartow Senior High School 2,276 students
- Lakeland Senior High School 1,985 students
- Lake Gibson Senior High School 1,973 students
- Kathleen Senior High School 1,861 students
- Auburndale Senior High School 1,770 students
- McKeel Academy of Technology 1,750 students
- Lake Region High School 1,568 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.