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In 1996, Bartow High School earned approval from the IBO to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma program. The students pursuing this program are placed in the International Baccalaureate School, a school-within-a-school on the Bartow High campus. While IB students attend many IB specific classes they take regular Bartow High School ...
Public primary and secondary education in Bartow, Florida is operated by the Polk County School Board. Polk County Schools operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and elementary schools within Bartow.
Bartow High School, formerly Summerlin Institute, is the oldest high school in the county and one of the oldest high schools in the state of Florida. [28] In 1923 Union Academy, became the first African-American high school in Polk County.
WINTER HAVEN — Lake Wales, Kathleen, Bartow and Haines City — you couldn't talk about Polk County high school basketball from at least the late '80s through into the late 2000s without ...
Polk State College Lakeland Collegiate High School (Eagles) Ridge Community High School (Bolts) Rochelle School of the Arts Black high school prior to integration; now a K-8 magnet. [9] Roosevelt High School, a black high school in Lake Wales prior to integration. [8] Tenoroc Senior High School (Titans) Union Academy Former black high school ...
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It dates to 1897 when it opened as an elementary school for African Americans. [1] It was expanded to include a high school in 1923. The high school was merged into Summerlin Institute in 1969 following the desegregation era and its students became part of Bartow High School on the Summerlin campus. Union Academy became a Middle School.
In 1867, Summerlin donated 120 acres (0.5 km²) of the Blount homestead land in the present-day town of Bartow: 40 acres (160,000 m 2) for an institution of learning (aptly named the Summerlin Institute, now called Bartow High School, founded 1887), 40 acres (160,000 m 2) for establishment of a county seat, and 20 acres (81,000 m 2) for each of the town's two churches (Methodist and Baptist).