Sleepy Hill Middle School, 2215 Sleepy Hill Road: grades 6-8, 886 students (2024-25), a C in Florida's 2026 school grades. 863-815-6577.

Last checked Oct. 9, 2026. Sources: Polk County Public Schools, its Address Zoning tool and school zones page, the school’s website, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades and the federal NCES school directory.

Sleepy Hill Middle School is a Polk County Public Schools middle school on Sleepy Hill Road in northwest Lakeland, inside the city limits and down the road from Sleepy Hill Elementary at 2285 Sleepy Hill Road. More of the city is zoned for it than for any other middle school: about 34% of the Lakeland addresses we checked for 2026-27.

Who to call
Address 2215 Sleepy Hill Road, Lakeland, FL 33810
Phone 863-815-6577
Grades 6 to 8
Principal Denay Clark
2026 state grade C (49% of points)
Mascot Jaguars

Principal. Denay Clark is the principal, according to the school’s staff page.

Enrollment and teachers

  • Federal count: 886 students in the 2024-25 school year, with 43 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 21 students per teacher.

State report card

Florida gave Sleepy Hill Middle a C in its 2026 school grades, its third C in a row, with 49% of the points possible, according to the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades file. The school’s state report card has results by student group; it is an interactive dashboard that could not be read for this page.

2026 school grade measure Result
School grade C (49% of points)
English language arts achievement 35%
English language arts learning gains 50%
Math achievement 38%
Math learning gains 52%
Science achievement 23%
Social studies achievement 64%
Middle school acceleration 77%

Florida grades schools A to F on the share of possible points earned across these measures. Achievement is the share of tested students on grade level; learning gains is the share who improved from the year before. For a middle school, A is 64% of points or more, B is 57% to 63% and C is 44% to 56%, the state’s file says.

Attendance zone and feeder schools

Polk County assigns middle schools by home address. We ran a random sample of 1,817 current address points from the City of Lakeland’s address layer through the district’s Address Zoning tool for 2026-27. About 34% were zoned for Sleepy Hill Middle, the largest share of any middle school.

Feeder schools. The district does not publish a feeder list; each grade is zoned by address, and the zones are not nested. Sleepy Hill Middle’s zone draws from many elementary zones. Among the sampled city addresses zoned for it, the most common are Sleepy Hill Elementary (23%), R. Bruce Wagner (16%), Griffin (13%), Jesse Keen (10%), Philip O’Brien (10%) and Dixieland (10%).

For high school, the same addresses are zoned for Kathleen (60%), Lakeland (14%), George Jenkins (13%), Tenoroc (7%) and Lake Gibson (6%).

Rezoning. The middle school zone did not change for 2026-27 in our sample. The School Board’s Jan. 27, 2026, vote set new boundaries for high schools only, according to the district’s announcement.

Check any address on the district’s GeoZone map for 2026-27.

Calendar and bell times

From the district’s 2026-27 calendar (PDF), which the district labels tentative:

  • Friday, Oct. 16: no school for students
  • Friday, Oct. 30: early dismissal
  • Wednesday, Nov. 11: Veterans Day, no school
  • Nov. 23-27: fall break
  • Monday, Dec. 21: winter break begins; students return Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2027

Bell times. Supervised hours are 8:50 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The first bell is at 9:15 a.m. and dismissal at 4 p.m.; on early-dismissal days students leave at 1:45 p.m., according to the school’s about page.

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Frequently asked questions

What grades does Sleepy Hill Middle School serve?

Sleepy Hill Middle serves grades 6 through 8. It is at 2215 Sleepy Hill Road in Lakeland, and its main line is 863-815-6577.

What is Sleepy Hill Middle School’s Florida school grade?

Sleepy Hill Middle earned a C in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 49% of possible points, its third C in a row.

Which high school does Sleepy Hill Middle feed into?

The district zones each grade by address. Among sampled city addresses zoned for Sleepy Hill Middle, 60% are zoned for Kathleen High for 2026-27, with the rest split among Lakeland, George Jenkins, Tenoroc and Lake Gibson high schools.

What time does Sleepy Hill Middle start?

The first bell is at 9:15 a.m. and dismissal is at 4 p.m.; on early-dismissal days students leave at 1:45 p.m., according to the school’s website.