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POLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S CENTRAL CENTER → TRANSITION SCHOOL → GAUSE ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP → POLK COUNTY SHERIFFS REGIONAL DETENTION CENTER → BILL DUNCAN OPPORTUNITY CENTER → REAL ACADEMY (REACHING EVERY ADOLESCENT LEARNER) → HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND → DORIS A. SANDERS LEARNING CENTER →At a glance
- 4-yr grad rate: 75% in 2019 (Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
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How Jean O'Dell Learning Center compares for families
What families should know about Jean O'Dell Learning Center.
- ▸ LocallyFL sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: POLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S CENTRAL CENTER, TRANSITION SCHOOL, GAUSE ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 21% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
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Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2021 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +8.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 81 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S CENTRAL CENTER BARTOW |
Public | 1.5 | 42 | — |
| TRANSITION SCHOOL BARTOW |
Public | 1.3 | 50 | — |
| GAUSE ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP BARTOW |
Public | 1.4 | 57 | -26.0% |
| POLK COUNTY SHERIFFS REGIONAL DETENTION CENTER BARTOW |
Public | 1.5 | 33 | — |
| BILL DUNCAN OPPORTUNITY CENTER LAKELAND |
Public | 8.2 | 49 | — |
| REAL ACADEMY (REACHING EVERY ADOLESCENT LEARNER) LAKELAND |
Public | 11.0 | 52 | — |
| HOSPITAL HOMEBOUND BARTOW |
Public | 0.5 | 91 | +78.4% |
| DORIS A. SANDERS LEARNING CENTER LAKELAND |
Public | 12.7 | 53 | — |
At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantJean O'Dell Learning Center is a public high school in Bartow, FL, enrolling 81 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 75% in the latest EDFacts release.
55% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.
Questions families ask
What is Jean O'Dell Learning Center's graduation rate? Jean O'Dell Learning Center's federal four-year graduation rate was about 75% in the latest EDFacts release.
How many students attend Jean O'Dell Learning Center? Jean O'Dell Learning Center is a public high school in Bartow, FL, enrolling 81 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.
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