Public school / Middle / Charter
Discovery Academy of Lake Alfred
Lake Alfred, Florida
- NCES ID
- 120159003112
- District
- Polk
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Discovery Academy of Lake Alfred is a public middle school in Lake Alfred, Florida, run by Polk. It enrols 911 students — the 10559th largest of 4,334 public schools in Florida.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
911
Teachers
48.0
Students per teacher
19.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
75.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Polk
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Ridge Community High School2,711 students
- 2Haines City Senior High School2,700 students
- 3Winter Haven Senior High School2,467 students
- 4George W. Jenkins Senior High2,451 students
- 5Davenport High School2,333 students
- 6Bartow Senior High School2,125 students
- 7Lake Gibson Senior High School2,080 students
- 8Kathleen Senior High School2,051 students
- Enrollment+48.4%
- Teachers+26.3%
- Students per teacher+12.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+30.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory