Polk County Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid said that he does not expect Crystal Lake Elementary to need another year to achieve a C grade.

Online applications are now open for free Head Start, voluntary pre-kindergarten (VPK) and special needs preschool programs ...

Polk County Public Schools ... of $7.8 million in additional funding for communities hit by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The award includes $500,000 for school district foundations to support ...

Polk County Public Schools improved its graduation rate by nearly four percentage points last year, but the district remains ... School graduation at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland in May ...

Not all volunteers will face an increase in application fees to nearly $100, as it appeared would be the case when Polk County Public Schools issued an announcement in December. The district posted ...

LAKELAND —This is a have-or-have-not season for Polk County basketball. Small schools like Victory Christian and Santa Fe Catholic are the county’s best bets of playing in the RP Funding ...

The Lakeland school is among seven in Polk County that have received recent D grades. Crystal Lake is the only one that has reached the stage of having the district file a turnaround plan with the ...

Polk County Public Schools improved its graduation rate by nearly four percentage points last year, but the district remains in the state’s bottom 10. The Florida Department of Education this week ...