High · Florida
Mclaughlin Academy of Excellence
Free meals for allMclaughlin Academy of Excellence, a public high school in Lake Wales, Florida: grades 6–11, 758 students, 24.5 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
- 758
- Teachers (FTE)
- 31.0
- Students per teacher
- 24.5
- Grades
- 6–11
- High
More students per teacher than 72% of high schools in Florida
Median 21.6 · 762 schools compared
More students per teacher than 94% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 53% of high schools in Florida
Median 948 · 833 schools compared
Larger than 67% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 6–11
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Polk
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Polk.
Location
- Address
- 800 4TH St S, Lake Wales, FL 33853
- Phone
- (863)678-4233
- City or town
- Lake Wales
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Roosevelt AcademyAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–12 | 279 | 12.7 |
Lake Wales Senior High SchoolCharterFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,597 | 21.9 |
Frostproof Middle/Senior HighFree meals for all | 6–12 | 998 | 15.4 |
Don E Woods Opportunity CenterAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–12 | 82 | 7.5 |
Lake Region High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,568 | 23.4 |
Winter Haven Senior High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,648 | 24.3 |
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.
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