ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a sprawling elementary school in FORT MYERS, Florida, operated by LEE. The school instructs 926 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 53% above the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 604 students.

LEE comprises 116 schools with combined enrollment of 102,524 students; ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 38% Black, 12% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 61% of students at ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lee County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 39.5%, a residual of -11.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Lee County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,107 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Lee County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 102,524 students), of which ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

CORONADO HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 44.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. ALLEN PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 984 (now 926). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 34% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 today.

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