# LAKE WALES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120159001790`
- **School name**: LAKE WALES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: LAKE WALES, FL 33853
- **Address**: 1 HIGHLANDER WAY
- **District**: POLK (LEAID `1201590`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 27.91677, -81.57945
- **Phone**: (863)678-4222
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6478387 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wales_High_School
- **Founded**: 1921

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,597
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 73
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 21.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 68.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: B

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 93.0%
- **2021**: 91.0% (cohort of 367)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 415

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 34.8% (548 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.4% (38 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.1% (34 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 0.5% (8 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 30.5%
- **Black/African American**: 1.8%
- **Asian**: 22.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 42.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 2.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 68.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 8.7% — 139 students
- **English Learners**: 3.0% — 48 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 70 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 11 students
- **Autism**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $6,288
- **Federal share**: $586
- **State + local share**: $5,702
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,489,537
- **Federal share**: 21.0%
- **State share**: 43.8%
- **Local share**: 35.2%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,033,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $69,972
- **Poverty rate**: 12.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.3%
- **Unemployment**: 0.0%
- **Median gross rent**: $968
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.0%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 25.8 miles (LANDIA CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.14 miles (RIDGE FERTILIZER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LAKE WALES, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY** — 0.3 mi away, 0.96% (this school: 2.38%)
- **EDWARD W BOK ACADEMY NORTH** — 0.8 mi away, 0.75% (this school: 2.38%)
- **ROOSEVELT ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 1.81% (this school: 2.38%)
- **HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 1.65% (this school: 2.38%)
- **MCLAUGHLIN ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE** — 2.0 mi away, 1.95% (this school: 2.38%)

### ela proficiency
- **DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEMENTARY** — 6.6 mi away, 62.5% (this school: 59%)
- **ALTURAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.7 mi away, 63.5% (this school: 59%)
- **JOHN SNIVELY ELEMENTARY** — 10.5 mi away, 61% (this school: 59%)
- **FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY** — 11.0 mi away, 79% (this school: 59%)
- **CHAIN OF LAKES COLLEGIATE HIGH** — 11.4 mi away, 95% (this school: 59%)

### graduation rate
- **CHAIN OF LAKES COLLEGIATE HIGH** — 11.4 mi away, 100% (this school: 93%)

### math proficiency
- **JANIE HOWARD WILSON SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 51% (this school: 44%)
- **POLK AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 45% (this school: 44%)
- **HILLCREST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.7 mi away, 70% (this school: 44%)
- **SOUTH POINTE ELEMENTARY** — 5.6 mi away, 54% (this school: 44%)
- **BOK ACADEMY** — 6.5 mi away, 59% (this school: 44%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/lake-wales-senior-high-school-lake-wales
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/lake-wales-senior-high-school-lake-wales/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/lake-wales-senior-high-school-lake-wales/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/lake-wales-senior-high-school-lake-wales/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/lake-wales-senior-high-school-lake-wales/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/lake-wales-senior-high-school-lake-wales/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/lake-wales-senior-high-school-lake-wales/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/lake-wales-senior-high-school-lake-wales/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/lake-wales-senior-high-school-lake-wales/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/lake-wales-senior-high-school-lake-wales/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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