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Language & Literacy Academy for Learning, Winter Haven, FL

Charter schoolCEP schoolLanguage & Literacy Academy for Learning is a public school in Winter Haven, part of Polk County Public Schools. It enrolled 332 students in 2024-25, with 25.5 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "LANGUAGE & LITERACY ACADEMY FOR LEARNING".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 332
Teachers (FTE): 13.0
Students per teacher: 25.5
Grades: PK to 12

This school's ratio is 6.2 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.

This school25.5

District19.3

Florida18.2

United States15.3

School details

Address: 222 East Central Ave, Winter Haven, FL 33880
Phone: (863)268-2903
District: Polk County Public Schools
County: Polk County
Level: Other
Type: Special education
Status: Open
Charter: Yes
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Small
NCES school ID: 120159008736

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 284
Reduced-price lunch: 0
Free or reduced-price lunch: 28485.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 284Students 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 similar schools in Polk County Public Schools

Ridgeview Global Studies Academy 1,581 students
Polk Full Time Eschool 429 students
Victory Ridge Academy 321 students
Real Academy (Reaching Every Adolescent Learner) 215 students
Karen M. Siegel Academy 175 students
Hospital Homebound 151 students
Doris A. Sanders Learning Center 84 students
Jean O'Dell Learning Center 81 students
Polk County Sheriffs Regional Detention Center 58 students
Polk Virtual Instruction Program 17 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.