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LEE

Fort Myers, Florida · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

102,506
Students enrolled
119
Public schools
4,997
Classroom teachers (FTE)
20.5:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 1,843
  • Kindergarten 7,207
  • Grade 1 7,243
  • Grade 2 7,312
  • Grade 3 8,296
  • Grade 4 6,981
  • Grade 5 8,212
  • Grade 6 7,112
  • Grade 7 7,492
  • Grade 8 7,988
  • Grade 9 7,936
  • Grade 10 8,013
  • Grade 11 8,336
  • Grade 12 8,535

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 51%
  • White 30%
  • Black or African American 14%
  • Two or more races 3%
  • Asian 2%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

48% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 48,918 of 102,432 students in the 112 of its 115 schools that report
  • Free lunch 47%
  • Reduced-price lunch <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$12,384 spent per student on day-to-day operations Florida median: $12,447 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $6,919
  • Support services $4,781
  • Other (food service, etc.) $685

Where the money comes from

  • Local 63%
  • State 25%
  • Federal 12%

Total revenue $1.7 billiontotal spending $1.6 billion

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: LargeStudents: 52% suburb, 40% city, 8% rural

Total staff (FTE)

12,202

District office

2855 COLONIAL BLVD, Fort Myers FL 33966

County

Lee County

Official website

NCES District ID

1201080

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About LEE

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Our Mission: To ensure that each student achieves his/her highest personal potential Our Vision: To be a world-class school system Lee County Public Schools is the ninth-largest district in Florida and the 40th-largest school district in the United States. We proudly educate more than 82,000 students in grades K-12. Our District is a model for others in the state and nation - from our Microsoft Certified High School (Dunbar High) to our National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence (The Sanibel School) to one of the top IB High Schools in the world (Fort Myers High.)
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