Middle · Florida
Southwest Middle School
Free meals for allSouthwest Middle School, a public middle school in Lakeland, Florida: grades 6–8, 746 students, 23.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Polk.
Size and class size
Compared with middle 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
- 746
- Teachers (FTE)
- 32.0
- Students per teacher
- 23.3
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 92% of middle schools in Florida
Median 19.2 · 571 schools compared
More students per teacher than 96% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 58% of middle schools in Florida
Median 805 · 581 schools compared
Larger than 73% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Polk
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Polk.
Location
- Address
- 2815 Eden Pkwy, Lakeland, FL 33803
- Phone
- (863)499-2840
- City or town
- Lakeland
- County
- Polk County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Lawton Chiles Middle AcademyFree meals for all | 6–8 | 704 | 20.7 |
Lakeland Highlands Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 1,118 | 18.3 |
Crystal Lake Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 753 | 23.5 |
Sleepy Hill Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 886 | 20.6 |
Lake Gibson Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 1,149 | 21.7 |
Mulberry Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 1,058 | 23.0 |
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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