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

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 ...

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 ...

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

About 3,000 students at the Central School District in and around rural Marion and Polk County communities missed ... “The state does not provide funding to make major repairs or improvements ...

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“Without this essential funding ... County shares our concerns with this mandate and the potential impact on the community,” said Joni McAnally, Clark County spokeswoman. School districts ...