International Baccalaureate
at Bartow High School
Accomplishments-Our School Profile
IB Competition is Tough...
The International Baccalaureate School is a school-with-in-a school, on the campus of Bartow High School, in Bartow, Florida. International Baccalaureate students enjoy a dramatically enriched learning environment with an international core curriculum and increased academic and extra-curricular expectations. Each year the IB School at Bartow accepts 70 new students from approximately 400 applicants coming from a pool of 11 public middle schools, 8 private/parochial schools and any number of home-schooled students in all of greater Polk County. Student achievement tests, middle school academic records and student essays provide a measuring stick for acceptance. The result is a small group (about 260 students) of highly motivated young people with phenomenal results.
Bartow’s I.B. School received an “A” Grade in 1999-2007. Read the letter from the governor (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) congratulating us for being one of the top 50 high-performing schools in the state.
- Our average SAT score is 1318.
- Our average ACT score is 28.3.
- The I.B. School had 21 National Merit Scholarship finalists and 34 semi-finalists in the past four years.
- Many leadership positions in sports and student organizations at BHS/IB were filled by IB students.
- The IB School’s 2000 - 2006 Florida Writes score was the highest average in the state.
- The IB School’s FCAT Reading and Math was the highest average in the state 2003 – 2006
- The IB School’s FCAT Science Score was the highest in the state 2004-2006
College Admissions
IB Student Awards, Honors & Achievements
You can e-mail us at ibatbhs@gate.net. We appreciate Polk.Net at http://www.polknet.com for the donation of this website.
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