177 Flatwoods Loop
Bartow, FL 33837

This school doesn't deserve ONE star but I can't choose zero. The faculty, especially the front office staff, are ridiculously incompetent and make everything ten times harder than it needs to be, from enrollment to graduation.The staff also refused to accommodate my child's disability and mobility devices for months despite plans in place with the county signed by their medical care team. The elevator was "broken" or they were refused the access keys for months, and told on several occasions to "just walk up the stairs" by the dean and several other office staff. The harassment and bullying by both students and faculty got so infuriating and harmful that we withdrew them and started them in a Hospital Homebound program instead.The facility and office staff are now withholding my child's diploma despite Hospital Homebound emailing and calling numerous times over the course of 2 months, and only after finally refusing to be put on hold and sent to voicemail got confirmation that it was there and ready for pickup however we're still being told we can't have it until May.If your child needs to graduate and has ANY kind of disability or mobility issues, just save yourself the trouble and enroll them in the Homebound program.Ridge Community High School is too overpopulated and understaffed to show any care or compassion for students WITHOUT challenges and simply outright refuses to follow federal requirements for ADA access.

I'm on the middle school side and this school genuinely sucks, we don't have enough janitors. Some of the bathrooms don't work. I had a teacher this year that I didn't learn anything.Admin do not stop fights enough it's mostly teachers. I've seen someone cough in the food once, there are so many fights. They messed up so many people's schedules that on the first day of school of the 2025-2026 school year they had all of us on the middle school side get them, mind you my schedule was still messed up. Overall PLEASE do not put your child in this school it sucks