High · Florida
Discovery High School
CharterDiscovery High School, a public high school in Lake Alfred, Florida: grades 9–12, 898 students, 20.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Polk.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 898
- Teachers (FTE)
- 45.0
- Students per teacher
- 20.0
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 63% of high schools in Florida
Median 21.6 · 762 schools compared
More students per teacher than 82% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 51% of high schools in Florida
Median 948 · 833 schools compared
Larger than 72% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- Charter school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Rural area near a city
- Run by
- Polk
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Polk.
Location
- Address
- 1000 N Buena Vista Dr, Lake Alfred, FL 33850
- Phone
- (863)268-7178
- City or town
- Lake Alfred
- County
- Polk County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
New Beginnings High SchoolCharterAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–12 | 997 | 66.5 |
Auburndale Senior High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,770 | 23.9 |
Ridge Teen Parent ProgramAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–12 | 11 | — |
Ridge Technical AcademyAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–12 | 103 | 12.9 |
| 10–12 | 340 | 48.6 | |
Ridge Community High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,632 | 23.1 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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