Government directory/Florida/Independent school district
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 201566

Polk.

Independent school district in Florida · Census county area: Polk.

Independent school districtSchool districtFunctioning
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

111,041students in the finance record
165operating schools connected
$12,447current spending per pupil
Who runs this Florida school system day to day

Frederick Heid

Frederick Heid is the current state-published superintendent for Polk County. The superintendent leads district administration; the school board governs the district. They are different public roles.

How this superintendent is selectedAppointed

FLDOE marks this district with the page's appointed-superintendent asterisk.

Call the district863-534-0500Main public numberEmail the superintendent's officeFrederick.Heid@polk-fl.netWork address published by FLDOEUse the district websiteMeetings, schools, policies, and servicesOpen official district site →
Public office contact
Role
Superintendent
Superintendent phone
863-534-0521
District office
1915 S. Floral Avenue, Bartow, FL 33830, P. O Box 391, Bartow, FL 33831
Exact state district ID
FL-53
Still missing: the governing board

The superintendent record does not complete the school-board record.

FLDOE's statewide page does not name this district's current board members or publish their seats, terms, vacancies, meetings, votes, election records, boundaries, contracts, or vendors. Election.org leaves those fields open instead of confusing an administrator with the elected governing body.

Source: Florida Department of Education public superintendent directory, checked 2026-08-30. Election.org joined all 67 county districts to NCES by exact FL-01–FL-67 agency ID. Public work contacts are reproduced as published; no private contact data is inferred. A dated directory row is not proof of continued service after this check.

Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment111,0419.5% higher than 2019
Current spending / pupil$12,4472.5% higher than 2019 after inflation · 25.7% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$1.6B46.1% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$263.6M22.3% lower than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 101,408; 2020: 102,952; 2021: 100,495; 2022: 105,422; 2023: 109,558; 2024: 111,041112,517105,76899,019201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $12,147; 2020: $12,648; 2021: $12,256; 2022: $12,277; 2023: $12,093; 2024: $12,447$12,725$12,371$12,016201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

201913.1% F53.2% S33.7% L
202012.8% F50.5% S36.7% L
202115.2% F52.9% S31.9% L
202221.0% F43.8% S35.2% L
202319.1% F46.5% S34.4% L
202419.1% F44.0% S36.8% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
2019101,408$9,900$1,119,215,000$1,062,944,000$339,070,000
2020102,952$10,435$1,214,768,000$1,182,799,000$321,030,000
2021100,495$10,587$1,186,101,000$1,295,313,000$299,277,000
2022105,422$11,454$1,422,094,000$1,326,165,000$309,889,000
2023109,558$11,747$1,458,819,000$1,462,031,000$280,671,000
2024111,041$12,447$1,633,863,000$1,552,874,000$263,583,000

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Schools this system operates

Explore the schools—not just the agency record.

NCES source ↗
Where the money comes from

$1.63B in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal19.1%$313M
State44.0%$719M
Local36.8%$602M
Total expenditures$1.55B
Current spending$1.40B
Instruction$846M
Support services$459M
Capital outlay$143M
Debt outstanding$264M

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

POLK

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address1915 S FLORAL AVE, BARTOW, FL, 33830
Open district website →
Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • Exact trustee-seat geometry, current vacancies, and appointment history
  • Complete historical board results, candidate profiles, and campaign disclosures
  • Exact attendance and board-seat boundaries for an address
  • Normalized meeting agendas, minutes, recorded votes, and decision history
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
201566
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing addressPO BOX 391 · BARTOW, FL · 33830-0391
Census contact/title fieldSupt
County areaPolk

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment109,5582023

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.

Not established by these records

  • Whether each governing or administrative role is elected, appointed, or mixed.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.