Tenoroc High School, 4905 Saddle Creek Road: grades 9-12, 1,141 students (2024-25), a C in Florida's 2026 school grades. Cambridge AICE. 863-614-9183.
Last checked Oct. 9, 2026. Sources: Polk County Public Schools, its Address Zoning tool, school zones page and magnet and choice schools page, the school’s website, the Florida Department of Education’s 2026 school grades, the federal NCES school directory, the U.S. Census Bureau’s geocoder and the Florida High School Athletic Association.
Tenoroc High School is a Polk County Public Schools high school on Saddle Creek Road in east Lakeland, opened in 2008, according to its website. The campus has a Lakeland mailing address but sits outside the city limits, in the Fussels Corner census area, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s geocoder. After the 2026 high school rezoning, its zone covers about 16% of the city addresses we checked for 2026-27, up from 6% a year earlier.
Who to call
- Front office: 863-614-9183, 4905 Saddle Creek Road, Lakeland, FL 33801
- School website: tenorochigh.polkschoolsfl.com
- Which school am I zoned for? Pupil Accounting, 863-519-7600, option 1, or the Address Zoning tool
- Cambridge AICE applications: the district’s Office of Acceleration and Innovation, 863-534-0631
- Buses: district Transportation Operations, 863-534-7300; transportation page
| Address | 4905 Saddle Creek Road, Lakeland, FL 33801 |
| Phone | 863-614-9183 |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Principal | Ave’ Wright-Gayner |
| 2026 state grade | C (52% of points) |
| Mascot | Titans |
Principal. Ave’ Wright-Gayner is the principal, according to the school’s staff page.
Enrollment and teachers
- Federal count: 1,141 students in the 2024-25 school year, with 48 full-time-equivalent classroom teachers, according to the NCES directory. That is about 24 students per teacher. The count is from before the 2026 rezoning added to Tenoroc’s zone.
State report card
Florida gave Tenoroc High a C in its 2026 school grades, its third C in a row, with 52% 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 (52% of points) |
| English language arts achievement | 41% |
| English language arts learning gains | 48% |
| Math achievement | 23% |
| Math learning gains | 37% |
| Science achievement | 51% |
| Social studies achievement | 70% |
| Graduation rate, 2024-25 | 91% |
| College and career acceleration, 2024-25 | 52% |
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 high school, A is 65% of points or more, B is 60% to 64% and C is 45% to 59%, the state’s file says.
Attendance zone and feeder schools
Polk County assigns high 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 16% were zoned for Tenoroc High.
Feeder schools. The district does not publish a feeder list; each grade is zoned by address, and the zones are not nested. Among the sampled city addresses zoned for Tenoroc, the district’s tool assigns middle school to Lake Gibson Middle (58%), Lakeland Highlands Middle (17%), Sleepy Hill Middle (16%), Crystal Lake Middle (7%) and Kathleen Middle (3%). The most common elementary zones for those addresses are North Lakeland and Wendell Watson.
Rezoning. The Polk County School Board approved new high school attendance boundaries on Jan. 27, 2026, effective with the 2026-27 school year, the district announced. Students already enrolled at a high school may stay there, with bus service if eligible; rising freshmen enroll at their new zoned school. In our sample, Tenoroc’s share of city addresses rose from 6% under the 2025-26 zones to 16%. Most of the addresses it gained had been zoned for Lake Gibson High or George Jenkins High.
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. School hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the first bell at 6:50 a.m., according to the school’s about page.
Sports and activities
In football, Tenoroc plays in Class 3A, Region 2, District 7 for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 seasons, with Discovery (Lake Alfred), Liberty (Kissimmee) and Mulberry, according to the Florida High School Athletic Association’s finalized football classifications (spreadsheet).
The school’s athletics page lists football, girls swimming, volleyball and cheerleading in the fall; boys and girls soccer, boys and girls basketball, girls weightlifting and wrestling in the winter; and softball, baseball, track and cross country in the spring. Patrick Smith is listed as head football coach. Follow the season on our Friday night football page and scoreboard.
Programs. Tenoroc offers the Cambridge AICE (Advanced International Certificate of Education) program, which the district lists as a high school choice program for grades 9 to 12 on its magnet and choice page. The district also lists Tenoroc as a 3DE school, an instructional model built around case challenges from business partners. The school’s home page says it was first in Polk to offer 3DE, offers more than 35 industry certifications and runs a Lakeland Electric Power Academy.
More on Lakeland schools
- The district’s school listings, with every Polk County school
- Every public school in Lakeland, with zones and report cards
- Our Lakeland schools guide for the full calendar, enrollment steps and School Board meetings
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Tenoroc High School serve?
Tenoroc High serves grades 9 through 12. It is at 4905 Saddle Creek Road with a Lakeland mailing address, and its main line is 863-614-9183.
What is Tenoroc High School’s Florida school grade?
Tenoroc High earned a C in Florida’s 2026 school grades, with 52% of possible points, its third C in a row. Its 2024-25 graduation rate was 91%.
Did the 2026 rezoning change Tenoroc High’s zone?
Yes. In our sample of Lakeland city addresses, Tenoroc’s share rose from 6% under the 2025-26 zones to 16% for 2026-27, mostly addresses that had been zoned for Lake Gibson High or George Jenkins High.
What time does Tenoroc High start?
School hours are 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the first bell at 6:50 a.m., according to the school’s website.
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