Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Southwest Middle School, Lakeland, FL
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 746
- Teachers (FTE)
- 32.0
- Students per teacher
- 23.3
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 4.0 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
- 2815 Eden Pkwy, Lakeland, FL 33803
- Phone
- (863)499-2840
- District
- Polk County Public Schools
- County
- Polk County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 120159001705
School meals
- Free lunch
- 547
- Reduced-price lunch
- 0
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 54773.3% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 547Students 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 middle schools in Polk County Public Schools
- Shelley S. Boone Middle School 1,329 students
- Lake Gibson Middle School 1,149 students
- Lakeland Highlands Middle School 1,118 students
- Mulberry Middle School 1,058 students
- Discovery Academy of Lake Alfred 1,039 students
- Jere L. Stambaugh Middle 1,013 students
- Lake Marion Creek Middle School 1,013 students
- Sleepy Hill Middle School 886 students
- Bartow Middle School 881 students
- Crystal Lake Middle School 753 students
- Kathleen Middle School 742 students
- Lake Alfred Polytech Academy 734 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.