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Wendell Watson Elementary School
A public regular school in Lakeland, Florida, in Polk. NCES’s record for 2024–25.
The school in 2024–25
- 764
- Students enrolled
- 45
- Teachers, full-time equivalent
- 44858.6% of students
- Eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
- Eligibility, as the state reported it. It is not a count of family income.
- 448
- Directly certified for free meals
Students by grade, and by race and sex, 2024–25
| Grade | Students |
|---|---|
| Pre-Kindergarten | 12 |
| Kindergarten | 104 |
| Grade 1 | 123 |
| Grade 2 | 129 |
| Grade 3 | 137 |
| Grade 4 | 126 |
| Grade 5 | 133 |
| Not Specified | 0 |
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| Race/ethnicity | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 4 | 5 |
| Asian | 2 | 3 |
| Black or African American | 43 | 67 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 134 | 119 |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 |
| Two or more races | 16 | 11 |
| White | 165 | 195 |
| Not Specified | Not in NCES’s file | Not in NCES’s file |
NCES’s own subtotals, under its own names. The race and sex counts are NCES’s subtotal without adult education, so they can add to less than the enrollment above. A count NCES suppressed or did not receive says so; this site computes no cell, total or share from them.
How this compares
- Students enrolled: 764 in 2024–25
- Larger than 83% of the 95,462 public schools in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. Larger than 65% of the 3,989 schools in Florida that report one.
- Pupils per teacher: 17.0 in 2024–25
- More than 71% of the 91,868 schools reporting both pupils and teachers. Pupils per full-time-equivalent teacher, the school’s own two counts.
The school’s entry
- Name as NCES lists it
- WENDELL WATSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
- Status
- Open
- Type
- Regular School
- Charter
- No
- Grades
- Pre-kindergarten to Grade 5
- Level
- Elementary
- Locale
- Suburb, large
- County
- Polk County
- School lunch program
- Yes under Community Eligibility Option (CEO)
- Virtual instruction
- No virtual instruction
- NCES school ID
- 120159002893
Sources
- Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25.
Compiled automatically from Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built
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